A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.... (Full plot summary below)
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A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.
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| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittA mildly subversive storyline is presented in the most inoffensive way possible. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chasea small gem of humanity brought into sharp focus without sentiment |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)A mildly subversive storyline is presented in the most inoffensive way possible. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerA rock-ribbed sense of committed, personal cinema and a core belief in people being able to pull themselves out of misery supports Ballast, an extraordinary debut by editor-writer-director Lance Hammer. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsBallast strikes me as one of the few American pictures of 2008 to say what it wants to say, visually and narratively, about a specific situation and part of the country, in a way that transcends regional specifics. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBallast inexorably grows and deepens and gathers power and absorbs us. I always say I hardly ever cry at sad films, but I sometimes do, just a little, at films about good people. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThis is the most significant feature about poor black life since Charles Burnett's 1977 "Killer of Sheep." |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekHas the sparse purity of barren trees and the brutal intimacy of a broken vow. |
| Village VoiceElena OumanoThe conflicts, truths, and, ultimately, grace and dignity that bind these three together are brought to authentic life, without Hollywood-style exaggeration, through the quiet little miracles of performance that Hammer coaxes from his non-actors, especially the heartrending Riggs. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachIt's a frustrating film in that its characters resolutely defy convention, and its story offers no epiphany, no one moment when everything becomes clear. |
