[COLD
IN JULY opens in Cleveland on
Friday May 30th exclusively at the Capitol Theatre.]
Review
by Bob Ignizio
In
COLD IN JULY, Richard
Dane (Michael C. Hall) encounters a burglar in his home late one
night and accidentally shoots and kills the man. The local police
assure him he did the right thing, accidental or not. That is not an
opinion shared by the burglar's father Ben Russell (Sam Shepard). Ben
shows up for his son's funeral and, when Richard tries to apologize,
starts making thinly veiled threats against Richard and his family.
It
looks like we're heading into CAPE FEAR
territory, but then the film throws us a curve-ball. It turns out the
man Richard killed wasn't really Ben's son. The two fathers form an
uneasy alliance to get to the truth, bringing in private detective
Jim Bob Luke (Don Johnson), and old army buddy of Ben's, to help. Not
going to give any spoilers here other than to say the deeper they
dig, the more shocking the revelations.
