Now available on DVD, from Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada, the Regina Sakatchewan-lensed Canadian drama "Hungry Hills" from director George Ryga,stars Keir Gilchrist ("United States of Tara"), John Pyper Ferguson ("Brothers and Sisters") and Gabrielle Rose ("Mothers & Daughters").
"...In 1954 after two years in a home for boys, 'Snit Mandolin' (Gilchrist), returns home to his seemingly unhinged and reclusive aunt 'Matilda' (Rose).
"Defeated by a community that still shuns him, confronted by the impossibility of surviving on his aunt's farm, Snit falls in with 'Johnny Swift' (Alexander De Jordy), another 'outcast'.
Johnny makes moonshine and sells it through a local bootlegger. The boys work together and become fast friends. And Snit finds first love with a free-spirited local girl, 'Robin' (Alexia Fast).
"But their adventure is interrupted by the enigmatic and unpredictable 'Roy Kane' (Pyper-Ferguson), the district's private cop, who took Snit away two years ago and will now use the...
"...In 1954 after two years in a home for boys, 'Snit Mandolin' (Gilchrist), returns home to his seemingly unhinged and reclusive aunt 'Matilda' (Rose).
"Defeated by a community that still shuns him, confronted by the impossibility of surviving on his aunt's farm, Snit falls in with 'Johnny Swift' (Alexander De Jordy), another 'outcast'.
Johnny makes moonshine and sells it through a local bootlegger. The boys work together and become fast friends. And Snit finds first love with a free-spirited local girl, 'Robin' (Alexia Fast).
"But their adventure is interrupted by the enigmatic and unpredictable 'Roy Kane' (Pyper-Ferguson), the district's private cop, who took Snit away two years ago and will now use the...
- 7/30/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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