“Don’t regret the things you do, just the things you don’t,” says Emory Cohen in the upcoming neo-noir “Detour,” and that’s pretty much the sentence around which the entire movie revolves. Utilizing plenty of split screen, the film, which we described as a Quentin Tarantino knockoff directing a “Sliding Doors” remake, essentially folds two crime stories in one.
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Directed by Christopher Smith, and also featuring Tye Sheridan, Bel Powley, and Stephen Moyer, the story follows a law-student who falls in a grifter, with their meeting leading to murder. Here’s the official synopsis:
Harper (Tye Sheridan), a seemingly naive law student, obsesses over the idea that his shifty stepfather was involved in the devastating car crash that left his mother hospitalized and comatose. He drowns his suspicions in whiskey until he finds himself suddenly engrossed in conversation with volatile grifter Johnny (Emory Cohen) and his stripper companion, Cherry (Bel Powley). As daylight breaks and the haziness of promises made becomes clearer, how will Harper handle the repercussions (not to mention the violent duo—on his doorstep)? Employing a split-narrative structure to tell this tale of deception and murder, Christopher Smith takes his audience on a thrill ride full of hairpin turns, where it’s never quite clear what or who can be trusted.
“Detour” opens in theaters and hits iTunes on January 20, 2017.
