Lake City

Sissy Spacek Q & A

The next screening of the afternoon was Lake City starring Sissy Spacek. In comparison to the other films I’ve seen so far, this has the most potential of going mainstream. Lake City is set in the classic American small town where Spacek’s character owns a farm. Her husband isn’t mentioned but throughout the film the story of her two sons unravels to reveal the death of her younger son at a very young age.

But the film is about the next generation when the older son returns home many years later with a young boy, his own son. From here the story somehow becomes a thriller and ends with the mother, son, and grandson trying to outrun drug lords in a cornfield. It was a little over the top but overall a loving film about the average, screwed up American family.