By Adam Shull ashull@paducahsun.com--
W. Earl Brown will screen his yet-to-be released film "Provinces of Night" at 7 p.m. Monday at the Curris Center Theatre. Brown, a former Murrayan who's appeared in the HBO series "Deadwood" and "There's Something About Mary," will be at the screening to include Murray State University students in the process of finishing a film.
"Provinces of Night" starring Kris Kristofferson, Val Kilmer, Dwight Yoakam and Hilary Duff it's complete, lacking its musical score. But Brown, and director Shane Taylor, wanted to give students the chance to see and discuss a film on its way to being completed.
Brown and Taylor, who is also a MSU grad, will hold a question-and-answer session after the screening.
For more information about the film visit www.imdb.com/title/tt1421048 or call 270-809-5600.
The movie's plot involves a love story, redemption and a budding writer.
Movie description:
If the wages of sin are passed from generation to generation, "Provinces of Night" is one boy's escape form the burden of that sin and his search for redemption. Teenage Fleming Bloodworth is alone in the world. His mother Abandoned him and his cuckolded father is on a quest for vengeance. One of this uncle's exists at the edge of lunacy, another escaped to the bright lights of Nashville, Tenn., and his grandmother is slipping into dementia. His only true companions are his books and dreams of being a writer ... then he meets two people who forever transform his world.
Fleming finds a kindred spirit in Raven Lee Halfacre, the illegitimate daughter of a prostitute. For the first time, they both feel the limitless possibilities of unconditional love. Fast on the heels of meeting Raven, Fleming meets the grandfather he has never known. E.F. Bloodworth has spent 40 years chasing women, whiskey and song, but as mortality creeps upon him he feels the need to face his past. It is only through the relationship that develops between him and his grandson that E.F. has any hope of redemption.
What Fleming doesn't know is that both Raven and E.F. harbor dark secrets that can destroy them all. Fleming is trapped in the eye of the storm, and must weather the darker provinces of night in order to find the hope of a new dawn.
