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Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in
the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios-he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get
him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but
intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn't long until Mud's visions come true and their small town is besieged by
a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

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The Southern-fried drama "Mud" is an electrifying example of what happens when you merge a crackerjack yarn
with a very specific setting, and then pour on the heat with riveting performances.

In rural Arkansas, two 14-year-old boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), have discovered an old boat stuck
in a tree on a remote island downstream from their town. They plan to make the boat their clubhouse, until they quickly figure
out someone’s already using it.

The man using it, played by Matthew McConaughey, says his name is Mud. He says he used to live nearby, but has been
away a long time. Mud also says he’s come back for his girlfriend, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), from whom he has been
separated for a long time.

But Ellis learns more about Mud from other sources. He learns from state troopers that Mud is a fugitive, wanted for killing
a man. He learns from Juniper that others want to find Mud before the police do. He learns from Neckbone’s Uncle Galen
(Michael Shannon) that the river washes up all sorts of trash, human and otherwise. And he learns from Tom (Sam Shepard),
who lives across the river from Ellis and is the closest thing Mud had to a father, that little of what Mud says can be trusted.

At the same time, Ellis is learning other things about love. He watches as his parents (Ray McKinnon and Sarah Paulson) veer
closer to divorce. And he experiences the pangs of first love when an older girl, May Pearl (Bonnie Sturdivant), is sweet to
him. Because of these events, Ellis’ view of true love — especially where it pertains to Mud and Juniper — becomes quite skewed.

Writer-director Jeff Nichols creates a drama equal to his 2011 breakout "Take Shelter." "Mud" channels Ellis’ observations and
feelings about a tumultuous age — when young love and family turmoil intertwine — through an intense crime story. It’s a
coming-of-age story with a fascinating, if highly unreliable, adult figure looming large.

It’s the twinned performances of McConaughey and young Sheridan that give "Mud" its juice. McConaughey shows, as he did
in "Killer Joe," that he can be a tightly coiled spring waiting to go off. And Sheridan (who appeared in Terrence Malick’s
"The Tree of Life") captures adolescent pain and determination without obvious histrionics.

The other "character" that makes "Mud" work is the Arkansas backdrop. It is Nichols’ authentic portrait of a life, of houseboats
clinging to the river and people scratching out an existence there, that makes Mud’s desperation and Ellis’ grit ring true.
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Zitat von »samuel«

Hoffentlich kommt er auch und nicht nur in einer erlesenen Auswahlvon Kinos, sondern möglichst überall.

Zitat von »Lord.Greystoke«

Bleibt abzuwarten, ob der Film den Weg nach D-land findet...

Zitat von »Shane«

Und Blu-ray muss auch her. Ganz klar Kaufempfehlung!