The Slaughter Rule

"Our mainstay, our true companion on those road trips...was the music of Jay Farrar. That voice, those words. His music went to the heart of the heart of the country we traveled through, and fed our imagination..." -Andrew Smith and... ... Full Article

"The Slaughter Rule" is an overwrought drama about a small-town football coach with a tortured attraction to high school boys. The movie has a sympathy for the coach's pain, which makes sense. But it also has the typical independent-movie reluctance ... Full Article

In their screenplay for The Slaughter Rule , directors Andrew and Alex Smith return to their Montana roots, a place that's  hard and hardscrabble, honky-tonk cowboy and cold -- even indoors in winter -- and lonely. ... Full Article

Later, we are introduced to his mother, Evangeline (the youthful Kelly Lynch), who appears to have permitted Roy to raise himself.Evangeline is on the prowl looking for a meal ticket as her flower is beginning to wilt. ... Full Article