Walker Payne

After an Illinois miner (Jason Patric) is laid off from his job at the quarry and his angry ex-wife (Drea de Matteo) offers to hand over custody of their two precious daughters (Chelsea Lopez and Gabrielle Brennan) for $5,000 so that she can escape the depressed small town in this heartbreaking, downbeat, violent 2006 film, he reluctantly and desperately accepts the offer of a slick, high-rolling gambler (Sam Shepard) to enter his loyal pit bull dog in illegal and vicious dogfighting competitions to the distain and horror of his bank teller girlfriend (Kadee Strickland) and his father (Bruce Dern) in 1957.
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