Desperation Road (2023)

If you’ve ever had to read (or watch) “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”, or “Jude the Obscure”, you must be very aware of Hardy’s trick of bringing all the storylines back together by the end. That’s how I felt during the watching of this film on Netflix last night. But instead of a Wessex County backdrop, this one takes place in Mississippi, where the author, Michael Farris Smith, was born.

In the closing credits, Garrett Hedlund’s name was above the film title, That alerted me to the fact that he’s obviously well-known enough to a segment of the population in the United States to be the star of this story.. A country singer, perhaps?

Hmm.