• Cold Country

  • Micah Ranum
  • Set Up
  • Drama
  • 2017
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Market: Wed, 11 Oct 2017Sold: Fri, 10 Nov 2017
Actor: Bryan Unkeless
Producer: Scott Morgan
AgentGreg Pedicin, Danny Toth (Gersh)
ManagerJeremy Platt, Antonio D’Intino (Plattform)
DistributorClubhouse Pictures
A buck-hunting competition and unexpected pregnancy start a war between two families that envelopes an entire Minnesota town.
An unplanned teen pregnancy pits two families in a small town against each other.
Two men fight one another to save their families, inadvertently beginning a feud that engulfs a small Minnesota town.
A youthful pastor and an artist bicker over a deer that can financially help them both. Things turn dark when the artist's daughter goes missing.
Film
Film, Drama, Thriller, Dark, Murder, Tragedy, Dysfunctional Family, Accident, Competition, Death, Father, Father/Daughter, Father/Son, Fatherhood, Investigation, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Rivalry, Rural, Secrets, Small Town
130
PG-13
Medium
M
Unspecified
40
Average
Romeo and Juliet, Westside Story, Atonement, The Great Gatsby, Taken
Present, Over 1-2 Weeks
Woods, cabin interior, shop, police station, home interior, town hall, church interior, community center, bank, nursing home, high school, ice rink
JOHN HALVERSON (Adult) confronts a hunter on his land, saying that the area is off-limits to hunting.

John’s daughter, SUMMER HALVERSON (16) stares at a positive pregnancy test.

GARY HALL (Adult), the town pastor, surveys his church’s leaky ceiling during a service. Gary’s son, SILAS (16) receives a text from Summer telling him that she has become pregnant.

Later, John is threatened by STIG KNUTSON (40’s), a loan shark. John has borrowed money from Stig in order to support his ailing craft business, where he carves antlers that are naturally shed from the deer on his property.

The next day, John secures a buyer for his products, provided that the next antlers that are carved are shed naturally from John’s biggest buck, GNARLY.

Meanwhile, the town’s annual buck hunting competition begins, with a prize of $35,000. After learning that he cannot afford to save his church from collapse, Gary decides to enter the competition. He sets up a stand on John’s land, despite John’s protests.

John’s wife, REBECCA (Adult), finds the pregnancy test. Silas confesses to his father that he got Summer pregnant. The two families meet in order to discuss the issue. John and...