A Country Called Home (2015 Anna Axster & co-scr)

It was her first feature having just made two shorts, and had contribution for crowd-funding Kickstarter (only a hundred grand, though - for development, I guess?)

Imogen Poots (great as always) returns to Texas when estranged alcoholic father dies, learns almost everyone hated him. Gets to know his girlfriend Mary McCormack, who's also a manipulative alcoholic, and her taciturn son Ryan Bingham, and meets a performer Mackenzie Davis. And, finally connects with their grand-parents, who are lovely - June Squibb and Presley Jack Bowen (his only film).

I suppose it would have just been too much to hope for that she finds a factory to make her furniture and thus becomes an entrepreneur... listen, it could have gone that way, but Axster prefers something quiet and reflective and more realistic.

We've seen Mackenzie in Breathe In and That Awkward Moment but not the intriguingly titled Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town. Ryan Bingham is best known as a composer / performer for Crazy Heart. And Mary McCormack (who's good) - nothing I think we've seen, lots of TV...