Big Bend, The

[Plays March 3 and 6 as part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival; for information, log on to https://sbiff.org/.] A long overdue vacation for two families goes off the rails in Brett Wagner's compelling, intense, suspenseful, well-acted, unexpected, 102-minute film, which is highlighted by striking scenery, when an ill father (Jason Butler Hamer), his pregnant wife (Virginia Knoll), and their two daughters (Delilah and Zoe Wagner) rendezvous with another troubled couple (David Sullivan and Erica Ash) and their two children (Gavin Matthews and Grae Carter Matthews) in the desolate desert landscape in West Texas where a child goes missing while a dangerous, escaped prisoner (Nick Masciangelo) is on the loose.
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