“Andrea Riseborough is great and Forest Whitaker is strong as a man of faith, but while Tom Wilkinson is good at conveying malice, he’s got that “English actor doing a Southern accent” accent that’s not really the right accent, but rather a weird approximation of it,” writes Drew McWeeny.
BURDEN
Logline: Centers on an orphan raised by the Ku Klux Klan, who attempts to break away when the girl he falls in love with urges him to leave the Klan for a better life together. When the Klan hunts the man down for vengeance, a black congregation led by a benevolent reverend takes the in man, his girlfriend and her son.
Logline: A local delivery boy kills his cousin Peedie in a car accident and walks away without a scratch, he then sets out to end his life by sleeping with all the women he makes deliveries to so their husbands will hopefully kill him.
