White hot crime
As a critic’s pull quote says in this trailer, “Crime hasn’t felt this hot in a long time.” And that’s the sense you really get with Carolina Caroline. In the time-honored tradition of Badlands, Bonnie and Clyde and True Romance, a naïve and impressionable young lady gets swept up by the passionate intensity of crime and sex and she joins a con man on the road to more jobs. Dinner in America director Adam Carter Rehmeier reunites with Kyle Gallner for another dangerous road trip movie.
Magnolia has released a new trailer for the film that’s scheduled to drop on June 5.
The rap sheet
In the lead roles we have genre icons Samara Weaving (whose credits include Ready or Not, Ready or Not 2, Mayhem, The Babysitter, Guns Akimbo, Scream VI, and episodes of Ash vs. Evil Dead) and Kyle Gallner, who has been in the likes of Red, The Haunting in Connecticut, Jennifer’s Body, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Red State, The Walking Dead, The Cleanse, Alien Code, Ghosts of War, Smile, The Passenger; Mother, May I?; and Smile 2.
The official synopsis reads,
“Acclaimed director Adam Carter Rehmeier’s romantic crime thriller stars Samara Weaving (READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME) as Caroline Daniels, whose desire to leave her small Texas town brings her into the orbit of a charismatic con man (Kyle Gallner), and together they weave a path of crime and passion across the American Southeast. Also starring Kyra Sedgwick, the film features a wide-ranging country music soundtrack, with tracks from artists such as Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Loretta Lynn, and over a dozen others.” Deadline notes that the film “features a wide-ranging country music soundtrack,” with songs from the likes of Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Loretta Lynn, and others.
Weaving and Gallner are joined in the cast by Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) as the estranged mother mentioned in the synopsis and Jon Gries, who’s best known to most as Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite, though I often think of his roles in Real Genius, TerrorVision, and The Monster Squad.
Carolina Caroline is produced by Bee-Hive Productions’ Stephen Braun, Star Thrower Entertainment’s Tim and Trevor White, The Wonder Company’s Eric B. Fleischman and Chris Abernathy, and Create & Complete Entertainment’s Chris Ward. MacPac Entertainment’s Jan McAdoo serves as an executive producer with Brittany Kahan Ward and Trent Hubbard. Star Thrower executive Laena Carroll is co-producer.
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