Swamp Lion

[Plays Oct. 23 and 28 as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] When their young son (Jack Elliot Ybarra) develops a life-threatening brain tumor and needs treatment in Boston that insurance will not cover in Torben Bech's heartbreaking, factually based, touching, hard-hitting, well-acted, intense, 107-minute film, a desperate long haul truck driver (Michael Ray Escamilla) living in a border town in South Texas with his wife (Bre Blair) turns to his brother (Luis Bordonada) who is involved with unsavory criminals (Dominic Hoffman, Karen Sours Albisua, et al.) to help make quick money to pay their son's astronomical medical bills.
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