Corrie Film Club

On Sunday 12th June, don’t miss this extraordinary murder mystery film at Corrie Hall, starting at 8.00 pm. Lone Star, directed by John Sayles, is set in the fictional small border town of Frontera in Texas. It begins with two off-duty soldiers finding a partially buried human skull – with a Masonic ring lying beside it.

The remains turn out to be those of Charlie Wade, who had been Sheriff forty years earlier and disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Wade is played by Kris Kristofferson, better remembered as a singer/song-writer, though he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford to study English literature. Chris Cooper plays the present-day Sheriff, Sam Deeds, whose late father, Buddy Deeds, became Sheriff after the disappearance of Wade. Buddy was a hugely admired public figure, but Sam starts to realise that his father may have been implicated in the killing. Men who knew both Buddy Deeds and Charlie Wade warn Sam that some things are best left hidden. However, the young Sheriff is determined to discover the truth. His investigations bring him into touch, (literally and delectably), with Pilar Cruz (Elizabeth Peña), whom he had known as a teenager until his father forbade him to see her any more. Sam had assumed that his father’s disapproval of Pilar was due to anti-Hispanic racial prejudice, but he uncovers facts that prove there is far, far more to it than that.

Lone Star will keep you on the edge of your seat, but it also has far-reaching things to say about the tensions that run below the surface in a multi-racial community. It’s an exciting, very intriguing film. The showing is open to the public and there is no charge, but a contribution to the Corrie Hall fund would be appreciated from those who are not Film Club members

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