Ragged Heart

[Plays Oct. 21 and 27 as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] After his estranged, talented daughter (Willow Avalon) drowns in the river while high on drugs in Evan McNary's heartbreaking, bittersweet, moving, well-acted, cameo-dotted (Jim White, Monsoon, Drive-by Truckers, Donna Hopkins, Linqua Franqa, Vernon Thornsberry, Leeann Peppers, Joshua Mikel, and Amanda Kapousouz), 84-minute supernatural thriller highlighted by wonderful music and photography, her traumatized, grieving father (Eddie Craddock), who currently works as a salvage collector in Georgia, tries to reenter the Athens music scene and pay tribute to his daughter by turning her last poem into a song.
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