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Firecracker is a film of genre Thriller directed by Steve Balderson released in USA on 11 october 2005 with Karen Black
Firecracker (2005)
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Add to a movie listFirecracker is a 2005 thriller film directed by Steve Balderson, starring Karen Black and Mike Patton.
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Firecracker is a tale of murder in small town Wamego, Kansas. The film portrays abuse, suffering, denial, and dreams of escape. Jimmy (Jak Kendall), meek, reclusive, and talented, is emotionally imprisoned by his abusive, alcoholic older brother David (Mike Patton) and fanatically religious mother Eleanor (Karen Black). At night Jimmy finds escape in a traveling sideshow carnival. Unlike its drab, depressing daytime reality, the carnival becomes a nightly glittering solitaire on the prairie, beckoning all around to its illusions and make-believe. With a guise of red satin and a heavenly voice, Sandra (also Karen Black), billed as an “oddity of nature,” is the carnival’s premier attraction. Yearning for a way out, Jimmy befriends Sandra, unaware that her imprisonment and degradation, at the hands of Frank (also Mike Patton), the carnival owner, mirrors his own. Sandra, taken by his innocence, finds her own inner strength and suppressed dreams. When David disappears, the metaphorical white-picket fences collapse, leaving raw emotions exposed.Actors
Karen Black
(Sandra / Eleanor)
Mike Patton
(Frank / David)
Susan Traylor
(Ed)
Kathleen Wilhoite
(Jessica)
George McArthur
(The Bald Man)
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