After a successful showing at both the 2012 Cainnes Film Festival and 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Jeff Nichols' Mud, starring Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard, Michael Shannon, and Reese Witherspoon, was picked up by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.
The film tells the story of two boys who happen across a man who goes by Mud hiding out on an island in Mississippi. Mud tells wonderous stories of a Texas murder and a slew of bounty hunters who are tracking his every move. He tells them that he is planning to meet and run away with the love of his life who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical of his promises, the two boys are shocked when their hometown is invaded with a beautiful woman and bounty hunters anxiously looking for their man.
Having completed its festival run, Mud has just received its first official poster and is set to hit theaters on April 26, 2013.
About Stephen Davis
I owe this hobby/career to the one and only Stephanie Peterman who, while interning at Fox, told me that I had too many opinions and irrelevant information to keep it all bottled up inside. I survived my first rated R film, Alive, at the ripe age of 8, it took me months to grasp the fact that Julia Roberts actually died at the end of Steel Magnolias, and I might be the only person alive who actually enjoyed Sorority Row…for its comedic value of course. While my friends can drink you under the table, I can outwatch you when it comes iconic, yet horrid 80s films like Adventures in Babysitting and Troop Beverly Hills. I have no shame when it comes to what I like, and if you have a problem with that, then we’ll settle it on the racquetball court. I see too many movies to actually win any film trivia contest, so don’t waste your first pick on me. My friends rent movies from my bookcase shelves, and one day I do plan to start charging. I long to live in LA, where my movie obsession will actually help me fit in, but for now I am content with my home in Austin. I prefer indies to blockbusters, Longhorns to Sooners and Halloween to Friday the 13th. I miss the classics, as well as John Ritter, and I hope to one day sit down and interview the amazing Kate Winslet.
