What Remains

Plays Oct. 28 and Nov. 3 at the Austin Film Festival; for information, log on to https://austinfilmfestival.com.] After the beloved wife of a compassionate, small-town minister (Cress Williams) is accidentally shot to death by a burglar (Kellan Lutz) who receives only a 5-year sentence due to the pastor's recommendation to the courts and then is hired by the pastor to help at the church upon his release in Nathan Scoggins' touching, heartbreaking, well-acted, down-to-earth, unpredictable, 101-minute film, the widowed pastor desperately tries to reconnect with his estranged, angry, college-bound teenage son (Marcus Gladney, Jr.) who constantly dwells on his mother's death and cannot forgive the just-baptized killer while the sheriff (Anne Heche) and a deputy (Stelio Savante) investigate another murder in Texas.
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