Chrystal
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ray Mckinnon
Harry Lennox
Johnny Galecki
Harry Dean Stanton
James Intveld
Grace Zabriskie
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A physically and emotionally damaged woman is reunited with her husband, Joe. Sixteen years earlier, while being chased by the law, Joe plunged the family car off a dark mountain road with Chrystal and their young son inside. Chrystal was left behind with a broken neck, Joe was sent to prison, and the boy was never found. Still inhabited by pain all these years later, Chrystal faces Joe, who has returned home from prison seeking to put back together the life that no longer exists. Together they must confront the past in order to discover their future. As Chrystal and Joe slowly reach out to one another, events once again conspire to tear them apart. Chrystal's feisty mother, Gladys, disapproves of Joe and his return. An old enemy named Snake, a gnarly, crank-snorting drug dealer, sees Joe as a threat and seeks to reel him in or take him out. Into this world of poverty, drugs, and hillbilly hijinks comes Kalid, a blind African-American musicologist from Chicago who is studying the native mountain music of the region. It is through Kalid that Chrystal rekindles her forgotten love of her mountain roots, the mysteries of the land--it's poetry, magic, music and history. But it is only through Joe, and his astonishing gesture, that Chrystal is able to truly renew her broken spirit.
Director
Ray Mckinnon
Cast
Harry Lennox
Johnny Galecki
Harry Dean Stanton
James Intveld
Grace Zabriskie
Walton Goggins
Billy Bob Thornton
Ray Mckinnon
Lisa Blount
Max Kasch
Colin Fickes
Kathryn Howell
Crew
Lisa Blount
Don Fleming
Brad Gilmore
Walton Goggins
Dave Hedge
Bruce Heller
Anthony G. Katagas
Myron Kerstein
Adam Kimmel
David Koplan
Ray Mckinnon
Ray Mckinnon
Emily Schweber
Peter E. Strauss
Stephen Trask
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States January 2004
Released in United States June 10, 2005
Released in United States November 2004
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2005
Released in United States Spring April 8, 2005
Feature directorial debut for Ray McKinnon.
Released in United States January 2004 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Dramatic Competition) January 15-25, 2004.)
Released in United States Spring April 8, 2005
Released in United States June 10, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2005
Released in United States November 2004 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Special Screening) November 4-14, 2004.)
