Genre: Drama
Ok, not much is known about this movie.I was fortunate enough to receive a synopsis from a very nice person named Dominique deVille, the President of the David Morse International Fan Club.
She obtained the synopsis from the Producer of the movie.
She told me that the Producer said that Ryan is amazing and that the chemistry between him and David Morse (he plays the coach and he was in the Green Mile) is awesome.
On to the story...
Filmography
The Story
Winter in Montana and everything breaks down. When Roy
Chutney gets cut from his high school football team
just days after his estranged father dies, he mistakes
the cut as a loss more tragic than being left
fatherless. Football, for Roy, means more than glory
or the fancy of girls: it promises escape from his
lonely rural existence and salvation from the
paralyzing passivity that dominates his life.
Roy finds himself with nowhere to turn. His stewardess
mother Evangeline is often absent, or absorbed in her
own loneliness; his awkward flirtations with girls
only intensify his longing; and football, the only
proving ground he knows, has been denied him. Roy
drowns his frustration in a mixture of tequila and
self-pity, cruising the drag with his best friend,
Tracy Two Dogs, a Blackfeet Indian with no small
trouble of his own. But in Blue Springs, Montana,
alcohol begets violence, and the soon-reached limits
of small-town Saturday night only add brutality to
Roy’s despair.
Enter Gideon Ferguson, a canny giant of a man who ekes
out a life among barflies, hawking newspapers in the
two a.m. netherworld of closing time. A fringe-dweller
from a roughneck world, Gid is haunted by a troubled
past – notice the scars, the rage under his skin. Gid
offers Roy a wild-card chance at self-redemption. A
football fanatic, Gid is recruiting “gamers” – kids
who scrap hard – from all over town, to play on his
six-man football squad. Rough-shod cousin to the
regular “three yards and a puff of dust” game, six-man
football is played on the outer reaches of the west,
in towns too hard to die, yet too small to people an
11-man team. Gid is fixing to barnstorm these towns,
and he wants Roy to lead his squad, to be his
quarterback. “You’ll be an outlaw, Roy. Renegade.
Gonna have something ain’t no one can take away.”
Entering Gid’s world, Roy becomes witness to a tender,
benevolent side of Gid, who must constantly look after
his old pal Studebaker, a sad-luck drifter. More
importantly for Roy, this honky-tonk nightlife hooks
him up with Skyla Spoja, a dark-eyed bartender several
years Roy’s senior. But when their burgeoning romance
interferes with Gid and Roy’s friendship, Gid’s
response is complicated – is he happy for Roy, or is
he jealous? See, Gid has grown right fond of Roy,
perhaps too fond. Emotionally starved and sexually naive, both repulsed and flattered by Gid’s
crude attempts at affection, Roy becomes suspicious of
Gid’s desires. Tracy – like many others in town –
suspects Gid of the worst intentions, and spurs on Roy’s doubts with
allegations of Gid’s sexual deviancy. Now, Roy must
gauge for himself what kind of man Gid is, and what
kind of man Gid wants him to become.
Just when they need each other’s trust the most, Roy’s
relationship with Gid takes a hard switchback turn. In
a brutal game against a juggernaut six-man team, Gid’s
team faces the humiliation of losing by “The Slaughter
Rule” – the game will end if they fall forty-five
points behind. Roy, angered by blood, defeat, and
betrayal, exposes Gid’s inner vulnerability. Gid,
losing control, oversteps the bounds of their tenuous
friendship. He forces Roy to choose between tolerance
and abandonment, strength and violence. The Slaughter
Rule is a rough season in a young man’s life, a season
of exposure, of prejudice, and – ultimately – of
compassion.
The film will be
playing at the Toronto film festival in the fall and
at Sundance next January.
Credited cast overview:
Kelly Lynch
Amy Adams (III)
David Cale
Eddie Spears
Clea DuVall
Ryan Gosling
David Morse
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