Blue Ruin

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Macon Blair as Dwight
• Devin Ratray as Ben Gaffney
• Amy Hargreaves as Sam
• Kevin Kolack as Teddy Cleland
• Eve Plumb as Kris Cleland
• David W. Thompson as William
• Brent Werzner as Carl Cleland
• Stacy Rock as Hope Cleland
• Sidné Anderson as Officer Eddy

Storyline:

Dwight Evans lives his life as a beach vagrant. He has no contact with his sister, and his parents were murdered ten years prior. When he gets word that his parents’ killer, Wade Cleland, is set to be released from prison, Dwight decides that he has nothing left to lose and sets out on a quest to avenge his parents’ deaths. Dwight succeeds in killing Wade, but complications emerge when his botched getaway allows the Cleland family the opportunity to vow revenge.

About Movie:

Blue Ruin is an American revenge thriller film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier and starring Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb, and David W. Thompson.

The film is named after the derelict blue Pontiac Bonneville which the main character Dwight operates.

The film was financed with help from a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 asking for $35,000 and money from Saulnier’s own savings. Saulnier initially did not want to use the crowd funding platform, as he felt conflicted about asking for help, specifically that donors could not invest in the back end through the site. However, he eventually realized that the positive outweighed the negative. Saulnier said that when making the pitch video for the campaign “I faced my worst nightmare” as he was camera shy.

Blue Ruin premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors’ Fortnight section on May 17, 2013, and won the FIPRESCI Prize. The film was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards.

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