Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
773.871.6604
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Ballast
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Oct 31, 2008 – Nov 6, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$9.25
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When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother, Marlee, a former drug addict. With its nonprofessional cast shot solely in available light, Ballast achieves a naturalism typically accomplished only at great cost and with largely artificial measures. If its basic premise — how a Mississippi Delta family negotiates the legacy of poverty — is typically the stuff of documentaries, this dramatic feature's stakes build with a blue-shadowed intensity and deliberation that only fiction can afford — and that is rarely found anywhere outside of Europe, these days.
