Badland
Jerry is a Marine reservist who was a young patriot and idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he is called up for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq, Jerry is a father of three; older and embittered by a life besieged by broken promises, and unfulfilled desires.
Jerry returns a changed man, transformed by horrors committed that go beyond comprehension and sanity, pain inflicted that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of his unexplained outbursts of rage, his wife, Nora, unsympathetic to the nosebleeds and night terrors he suffers. She hides money her sons earn from their paper route in case they need to leave. Their crowded trailer home becomes a prison. His failure as a man, his actions as a soldier, is the punishment which they share.
He realizes that the respect and dignity he has spent his life trying to achieve will always elude him. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he has experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
Directed by
Francesco Lucente
Cast
Linda St. George - Voice of Hilda Adel
Jamie Draven - Jerry
Chandra West - Oli
Linda Naney - Voice of Dorothy
Joe Morton - Max
Vinessa Shaw - Nora
Louise Campbell - Ray
Tom Carey - Louie
Jake Church - Stevie
Dennis Corrie - Fire Captain Baker
Grace Fulton - Celina
Production Co.
Badland, Inc.
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Produced by
Jorg Neumann
Gordon Guiry
Michel Shane
Studio
Badland, Inc.
Writer
Francesco Lucente
Music
Ludek Drizhal
