DONNYBROOK
Amidst the opioid epidemic infecting America’s rust belt, down-and-out ex-Marine Jarhead Earl (Jamie Bell) battles for a large cash prize in an underground boxing ring against a raging madman.
Filmmaker Tim Sutton (DARK NIGHT) sees little hope for the trailer park denizens of the bleak, pugilist nightmare world of DONNYBROOK. The scrappy Jarhead Earl (Jamie Bell, BILLY ELLIOT) barely hangs by a thread as he resorts to stick-em-ups to provide for his drug-addled wife, Tammy (Dara Tiller), and two children. When word of a $100,000 prize to the last-man-standing in an illegal cage match reaches Earl, the lightweight bruiser sees it as a last attempt to save his family from their hellish surroundings. Standing in his way is resident drug dealer and Goliath to Earl’s David, Chainsaw Angus (Frank Grillo). As a lust for violence madman who terrorizes the community, Angus shows little remorse, save for his younger sister and resident femme fatale Dalia (Margaret Qualley). As their destined showdown looms ahead, Earl and Angust must combat through a gauntlet of increasingly barbaric and eye-popping death matches against other lost souls of the rust belt. With each bone-crushing hit excruciatingly landed on screen, Sutton asks if there is even anything left fighting for?
CAST: Frank Grillo, Jamie Bell, Margaret Qualley, James Badge Dale
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