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A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team. full summary | add synopsis
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ryan Gosling | ... | Roy Chutney |
 | David Morse | ... | Gideon 'Gid' Ferguson |
 | Clea DuVall | ... | Skyla Sisco |
 | David Cale | ... | Floyd aka Studebaker |
 | Eddie Spears | ... | Tracy Two Dogs |
 | Kelly Lynch | ... | Evangeline Chutney |
 | Amy Adams | ... | Doreen |
 | Ken White | ... | Russ Colfax |
 | Noah Watts | ... | Waylon Walks Along |
| Kim DeLong | ... | Lem Axelrod |
 | Geraldine Keams | ... | Gretchen Two Dogs |
| Douglas Seybern | ... | Uncle Peyton |
| Cody Harvey | ... | Coach Motlow |
| Melkon Andonian | ... | Devo |
| J.P. Gabriel | ... | Jute |
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Rated R for language and sexual content.
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Love is difficult no matter what relationships are binded together. However, male bonding can be the most difficult and fraught with anxiety. To find love among men means weakness in parts of our society. "The Slaughter Rule" converges on that dilemma within an archetypal framework of male sports.
Superb casting is generated in the chemistry between the mature teenager Roy Chutney (Ryan Gosling) and adolescent adult Gideon Ferguson (David Morse), who wrangle on the dangerous edge of pederasty. Not finding true love with women, Gid searches and grasps for intimacy the only way he has known: football. Roy subconsciously searches for the father he never really had, getting a little more than he bargained for in return.
In bleak blizzard landscapes and amid hard scrabble lives, the Smith brothers and their camera freeze on the action, whether on the playing fields or the local restaurant or honky tonk. Beautifully photographed in Montana and containing wonderfully written dialogue, one feels they have known the characters for a long, long time. They embody flesh, blood, bones, brains, guts, heart, and love.