The Slaughter Rule

The Slaughter Rule
Movie poster
Directed byAlex Smith
Andrew J. Smith
Written byAlex Smith
Andrew J. Smith
Produced byGavin O'Connor
StarringRyan Gosling
David Morse
Clea Duvall
Kelly Lynch
CinematographyEric Alan Edwards
Edited byBrent White
Music byJay Farrar
Distributed byCowboy Pictures
Release dates
  • January 11, 2002 (2002-01-11) (Sundance)
  • January 8, 2003 (2003-01-08) (United States)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$500,000 (estimated)[1]
Box office$13,411[2]

The Slaughter Rule is a 2002 American coming of age sports drama film directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith and starring Ryan Gosling and David Morse. The film, set in contemporary Montana, explores the relationship between a small-town high school football player (Gosling), and his troubled coach (Morse). The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

Plot

Roy Chutney is a high school senior in the fictional Montana town of Blue Springs. Roy does not have an especially close relationship with his mother Evangeline and has not seen his father in years. That does not prevent Roy from feeling emotionally devastated when he learns that his father has killed himself, and Roy's self-esteem takes a beating when he is cut from the high school football team shortly afterward. Roy whiles away his time by swilling beer with his best friend, Tracy Two Dogs, and falling into a romance with Skyla, a barmaid at a local tavern, but Roy's short time on the high school gridiron seems to have impressed Gideon Ferguson, a local character who coaches an unsanctioned high school six-man football team when he is not delivering newspapers or trying to score a gig singing country songs at nearby honky-tonks.

Gideon thinks that Roy has potential and asks him to join his team; encouraged by Gideon's belief in him, Roy agrees, and he persuades Tracy and his friend Russ to tag along. While playing hardscrabble six-man football helps restore Roy's self-confidence, he finds it does not answer his questions about his future or his relationship with Skyla. When Gideon's overwhelming interest in Roy begins to lend credence to town rumors that Gideon is gay, Roy starts to wonder just why he was asked to join the team.

Cast

Production

Jay Farrar, founder of the alternative country bands Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, composed the film's musical score.[3][4] New songs were written and performed by Vic Chesnutt and Freakwater, and existing songs by Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, and the Pernice Brothers were also included.[4]

Filming for the movie largely took place in Great Falls, Montana, and a series of small towns in the Great Falls vicinity.[5][6]

The title of the film comes from the term "slaughter rule." The unofficial rule provides for an athletic competition's premature conclusion if one team is ahead of the other by a certain number of points prior to game's end. The rule helps to avoid humiliating the losing team further.[7]

Release

The film premiered in January 2002 during the Sundance Film Festival. Later that year, the film entered the South by Southwest Film Festival and the AFI Film Festival.[8] It went into limited release nationwide beginning January 2003.[9][2]

Critical reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 31 reviews, and an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A bleak but original indie, The Slaughter Rule benefits from outstanding performances by Ryan Gosling and David Morse."[10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[11]

While the performances by Morse and Gosling were generally received positively, some reviews of the film criticized the script. Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Stephen Holden praised the performances of Gosling and Morse, but opined that the film is "confused" and "doesn't have much dramatic momentum".[12] In her review for the Los Angeles Times, Manohla Dargis praised the film's cinematography but wrote that although the film has the virtue of sincerity, the story is "over-explained".[13]

Joe Leydon of Variety claimed the script "plays like a first draft".[14] However, Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle thought that the "writing and directing team of twin brothers Alex and Andrew Smith have made an astonishingly good first feature".[15] J. R. Jones, writing in Chicago Reader, described the film as "powerful" and especially praised David Morse's performance.[16]

Accolades

The film received the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2002 Stockholm Film Festival[17] and the Milagro Award at the 2002 Santa Fe Film Festival.[18] The film was also nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards[19] and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Slaughter Rule - Financial information". The Numbers. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "The Slaughter Rule (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  3. ^ Fox, Pamela; Ching, Barbara (2008). Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. p. 238. ISBN 9780472070534.
  4. ^ a b Wachter, Karl (April 2003). "Reviews: 'The Slaughter Rule'". CMJ New Music Monthly. p. 68.
  5. ^ Inbody, Kristen (December 29, 2016). "'Shot in Montana': Big Sky Cinema is scope of new book". USA Today. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  6. ^ Douglas, Patrick (March 18, 2016). "Does Great Falls have a Hollywood Boulevard?". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  7. ^ Holden, Stephen (March 29, 2002). "On or Off the Field, Rough, Raw and Twangy". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  8. ^ "The Slaughter Rule (2002) Awards & Festivals". Mubi.
  9. ^ a b "Ryan Gosling and David Morse star in THE SLAUGHTER RULE". PR Web. January 13, 2003. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  10. ^ "The Slaughter Rule (2002)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  11. ^ "The Slaughter Rule Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  12. ^ Holden, Stephen (March 29, 2003). "FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWS; On or Off the Field, Rough, Raw and Twangy". The New York Times. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  13. ^ Dargis, Manohla. "'Slaughter Rule' tosses metaphors like passes". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  14. ^ Leydon, Joe (February 4, 2002). "Review: 'The Slaughter Rule'". Variety. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  15. ^ Baumgarten, Marjorie (March 8, 2002). "The Slaughter Rule". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  16. ^ Jones, J. R. (January 23, 2003). "The Slaughter Rule". Chicago Reader. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  17. ^ "DAILY NEWS: Stockholm Winners and EFA Doc Winner". IndieWire. December 2, 2002. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  18. ^ "DAILY NEWS: Slamdance Announces 2003 Line Up and Santa Fe Names its Festival Winners". IndieWire. December 10, 2002. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  19. ^ "2003 IFP Independent Spirit Award Nominations". IndieWire. December 11, 2002. Retrieved 14 November 2022.

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