Blow the Man Down Movie Storyline. Welcome to Easter Cove, a remote and insular fishing village on Maine’s rocky coast. In this small town, bonds run as deep as the ocean and secrets are as thick as the morning fog. Each day, droves of men take to sea for the daily catch while a handful of women serve as the community’s powerful, albeit discrete, operators. Though the self-interested code of the town’s old guard has governed for years, our tale takes place as the tides are turning in Easter Cove. Mary Margaret Connolly, a beloved and integral town matriarch, has just passed away.
In the wake of her death, her daughters, Mary Beth and Priscilla, face an uncertain future, haunted by bills and unpaid loans left behind. Priscilla tries to fill her mother’s shoes by taking over the family fish shop while her younger sister Mary Beth refuses to accept the new responsibilities. The sisters find themselves at odds and Mary Beth stubbornly defends her dream of leaving town – even if it means abandoning Priscilla altogether. Meanwhile, across town, at a bed and breakfast-turned-brothel, established town elder and madame Enid Nora Devlin is up to business as usual, except for two huge problems: someone stole $50K in cash and one of her girls, Dee, has gone missing.
With little else to do, she sends her muscle, an outsider named Gorski, in pursuit of the cash and Dee. After a series of chance wrong turns sets Gorski on a collision course with Mary Beth, she accidentally kills him and must turn to the only person she has left: her sister. Together, the Connolly sisters must cover up Mary Beth’s mistake and figure out what to do with the mysterious bag of cash they found in his shack.
When Dee’s body washes up on shore, the town’s remaining matriarchs – Doreen, Gail and Susie – snap into action. These three, along with Enid and Mary Margaret, have quietly maintained the code of conduct for decades, navigating the murky water of the town’s dubious past. The matriarchs intervene and make it their business to decide Enid’s fate – as well as the fate of the Connolly sisters.
Blow the Man Down is an 2019 American black comedy thriller film, written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy. It stars Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe, Annette O’Toole, Marceline Hugot, Gayle Rankin, Will Brittain, Skipp Sudduth, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, June Squibb, and Margo Martindale. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2019. It was released on March 20, 2020, by Amazon Studios.
Blow the Man Down (2020)
Directed by: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy
Starring: Sophie Lowe, Morgan Saylor, David Coffin, Mark S. Cartier, David Pridemore, Adam Wolf Mayerson, Meredith Holzman, Marceline Hugot, Annette O’Toole, Margo Martindale
Screenplay by: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy
Production Design by: Jasmine Ballou Jones
Cinematography by: Todd Banhazl
Film Editing by: Marc Vives
Costume Design by: Brooke Bennett
Set Decoration by: Katie Lobel
Art Direction by: Danny Walton
Music by: Jordan Dykstra, Brian McOmber
MPAA Rating: R for language, some violence, sexual material and brief drug use.
Distributed by: Amazon Studios
Release Date: March 20, 2020 (Internet)
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