The film stars Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic country singer named Bad Blake, who takes one last shot at redemption after meeting a journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is trying to get to the real story about his life. (filmjunk.com)
The influx of unemployed men who've left their homes for a new, thoroughly American, and probably - doomed shot at redemption on the oil fields is the subject of Jesse Moss's Sundance - feted The Overnighters, a complex look at how this mass exodus and uneasy resettlement has brought the residents of Williston to the limits of their compassion and brotherly love. (filmfreakcentral.net)
That's one of the joys of the franchise: prequels notwithstanding, they're a deliciously simple story — it's about good against evil, an underdog upsetting the odds, a final shot at redemption for a corrupt character... It's a story we want to inhabit and make real in our lives. (premierchristianity.com)