Septien

Suddenly and without explanation, Cornelius Rawlings, The Athlete (Tully), returns to his family’s Tennessee farm eighteen years after he disappeared. His parents have died, but his two brothers — Ezra, The Matriarch (Robert Longstreet) and Amos, The Artist (Onur Tukel) — have continued their isolated, idiosyncratic lives on the family farm. The brothers receive the phenomenally bearded Cornelius’ return with equal parts bewilderment and joy, but he remains a mysterious presence in their midst, slipping away occasionally to hustle cash as an unlikely ringer on the basketball and tennis courts. A tentative balance is struck, even as much remains unsettled and unsaid among the brothers… until a sleazy figure from their past returns, turning their world on its head. (Eric Allen Hatch, MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL)