All Mistakes Buried
The movie centers on Sonny, a once successful small businessman who lost his fortune and becomes a drug addict. Sonny takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes can save his marriage.
17 August 1965, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
1 October 1982, Suwon, South Korea
8 February 1968, USA
29 January 1969, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
January 21, 2016
Combines two popular indie genres (Sad Bastard and Low-Budget Crime) without ever quite becoming its own thing.
July 18, 2015
This story about self/drug abuse would be nowhere as remarkable were it not for Trammell's performance and McCann and Chris Kursel's editing choices.
January 21, 2016
Mr. Trammell's drug-induced stammers and tics don't by themselves add up to a compelling portrayal, nor is this drama of the down and out at all gripping.
January 19, 2016
Even when all the puzzling pieces of Sonny's existence don't quite fit, Trammell's beautifully unhinged performance offers a compelling vision of a grieving narcissist burrowing into the rabbit hole of his own mind.
January 22, 2016
If there were Oscars for Best Performance in a Movie Academy Voters Wouldn't be Caught Dead Watching, Trammel's performance would be a lock for a nomination.
January 25, 2016
Sam Trammell is fascinating and fearless, stripped clean--or, more accurately, filthy--of anything approaching actorly vanity.
January 21, 2016
Unfortunately McCann's eerie atmospherics and masterful weaving of flashback sequences into the narrative can't save the movie from encroaching cliché.
January 21, 2016
Filmmaker Tim McCann, star Sam Trammell and superb cinematographer Alan McIntyre Smith elevate a low-budget crime drama to an elegant, if repetitive, character study.
January 26, 2016
Trammell carries the film with the physicality of his performance as the jittery, panicked Sonny, exerting a tremendous effort to contain his rising desperation and hysteria.
