SXSW 2018 Preview: 15 Must-See Films In Austin

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Director: Dan Gregor
Cast: Adam Pally, Rachel Bloom, Vincent Kartheiser
Synopsis: Billy, the coolest kid in high school, comes back to his hometown 15 years later to find he’s no longer cool and the girl he still has feelings, for now, dates the former town outcast. Billy becomes obsessed with proving the outcast is a murderer.

Sadie
Director: Megan Griffiths
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Sophia Mitri Schloss, John Gallagher Jr.
Synopsis: While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in a new man.

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Director: Hannah Marks, Joey Power
Cast: Maika Monroe, Jeremy Allen White, Marisa Tomei
Synopsis: A young couple’s relationship develops quickly when one of them is diagnosed with a life-changing illness.

Support The Girls
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Cast: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Shayna McHayle
Synopsis: The general manager at a highway-side ‘breastaurant’ has her incurable optimism and faith–in her girls, her customers, and herself–tested over the course of a long, strange day.

blankThe Legacy Of The White Tail Deerhunter
Director: Jody Hill
Cast: Josh Brolin, Danny McBride, Montana Jordan
Synopsis: The great hunter Buck Ferguson and his trusted cameraman Don set out for an epic weekend adventure to reconnect with Buck’s young son.

Thy Kingdom Come
Director: Eugene Richards
Cast: Javier Bardem, Callie Eldred, Tasia Moore
Synopsis: A cancer patient mad at God; a Klansman seeking redemption; a mother blamed for her baby’s death; an elderly woman never not in love; a priest who doesn’t pass judgment, who listens: Interwoven, unscripted stories of life in a small mid-America town.

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