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Mud
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.
2013 · Directed by Jeff Nichols · 130 min · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 20 frames
Tagline
Running from his past. Hiding from the law. Only one way out.
Plot
Ellis and Neckbone, two teenage boys living near DeWitt, Arkansas, are excited to find an abandoned boat lodged in a tree on a small island in the Mississippi River, a remnant of a past flood. However, the boat is already inhabited by a man named Mud, a disheveled but charismatic fugitive whom the boys encounter a short time later. Mud asks for some food, promising them the boat in exchange once he is gone.
Returning with food, the boys ask Mud why he is hiding out. Mud reveals he is waiting for his girlfriend Juniper, whom he describes as beautiful, with distinctive nightingale tattoos on her hands. The boys later spot Juniper in town. Meanwhile, Ellis falls for an older girl named May Pearl.
Ellis learns that his parents are heading for divorce over his mother's desire to move into town. This threatens their old river houseboat: if no longer used as a residence by the owner, it will be demolished by the River Authority. Later, at a roadblock, Ellis finds out Mud is a wanted fugitive, but denies having seen him.
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Crew
- Written by: Jeff Nichols
- Cinematography: Adam Stone
- Edited by: Julie Monroe
- Music: David Wingo
- Production design: Richard A. Wright
- Produced by: Lisa Maria Falcone, Sarah Green, Aaron Ryder
Cast
- Matthew McConaughey as Mud
- Reese Witherspoon as Juniper
- Tye Sheridan as Ellis
- Jacob Lofland as Neckbone
- Sam Shepard as Tom
- Ray McKinnon as Senior
- Sarah Paulson as Mary Lee
- Michael Shannon as Galen
- Joe Don Baker as King
- Paul Sparks as Carver
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Everest Entertainment, FilmNation Entertainment, Brace Cove Productions
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $32,613,173
- Themes: sniper, friendship, bounty hunter, snake, mississippi river, river, killing, houseboat, motel, arkansas
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