One night when practicing at Zeke’s house, after their host’s loving wife Lydia (Virginia Newcomb) and daughter Cynthia (Poppy Cunningham) have gone to bed, the three take their hangout time in a different direction after Dick offers up the tantalizing suggestion, “Y’all motherf-ers want to get weird?”Īlso Read: A24 Acquires Toronto Midnight Madness Horror Film 'Saint Maud' The titular victim (played in its brevity by Scheinert himself) is one-third of a redneck trio of garage-band bros, along with family man Zeke (Michael Abbott Jr., “Hearts Beat Loud”) and slacker Earl (Andre Hyland). But indie moviegoers looking for an off-road excursion likely to trigger more than a few exhortations of “oh no” - as both laughs and gasps - could turn this “Death” into something with cult life. Native Alabamian Daniel Scheinert - one half of the directing duo the Daniels (with Daniel Kwan) - might have a tough time selling his home state’s citizens on what exactly he’s saying with screenwriter Billy Chew’s “Fargo”-esque yarn of one good ol’ boy’s very bad demise. A cringe-worthy movie of Alabama backwater haplessness that could easily earn a promotional tie-in with the annual excellence-in-stupidity honors known as the Darwin Awards, “The Death of Dick Long” may be a made-up story, but inside this crisis management suspense-comedy is a weirdly down-to-earth humanity about the ripple effects of out-of-nowhere recklessness.
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