Join Kirsten Dunst ("
Fargo"), actor
Jaeden Lieberher ("
St. Vincent"), actor
Joel Edgerton and writer/director
Jeff Nichols as they discuss their sci-fi thriller “
Midnight Special.” A provocative, genre-defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human, it follows a father, Roy (
Michael Shannon), who goes on the run to protect his young son,
Alton (Lieberher), a boy with mysterious powers that even Roy himself cannot comprehend.
"Midnight Special" summary:
A father (Michael Shannon), goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers. What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the
Federal Government. Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever.
An 8-year-old boy named Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) has allegedly been abducted from his home in a gated
Texas religious community known as the
Ranch, where the sect's leader,
Calvin Meyer (
Sam Shepard), took charge of his upbringing two years earlier. The boy has hit the road with his biological father, Roy
Tomlin (Shannon), later revealed to have been raised within the Ranch. Accompanying them and providing muscle in sticky situations is Roy's childhood buddy
Lucas (Joel Edgerton), a state trooper persuaded as to the necessity of the fugitives' flight by mysterious things that Alton has shown him. As they head
East across the
Southern states, they also reconnect with Alton's mother
Sarah (Kirsten Dunst), who fled the Ranch in despair when her son was taken from her
....
Genre:
Adventure,
Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer: Jeff Nichols
Producers:
Sarah Green,
Brian Kavanaugh Jones
Cast:
Adam Driver as
Sevier
Sean Bridgers as
Fredrick
Kirsten Dunst as Sarah
Joel Edgerton as
Lucas
Michael Shannon as Roy
Sam Shepard as Calvin
Meyer
Paul Sparks as
Agent Miller
Jaeden Lieberher as Alton
Etc...
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- published: 09 Mar 2016
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