All Mistakes Buried

The film centers on Sonny (Sam Trammell) who is introduced to us as a crack-head who is living near the bottom. He wants to get back with his wife, as he now sees her point of view, but she doesn't seem to want any contact. Sonny has flashbacks to his old life as a successful business man who installs security systems. The film goes back and forth between the two as Sonny plans on seeing his wife on their anniversary. He got a card and has acquired a necklace (compare to necklace wife wears in flashback). This manages to get him into further trouble as we wonder how Sonny went down this road. This mystery is revealed to us with a twist I didn't see coming. It was one of those endings that makes me want to watch the film one more time, only this time from a different perspective. Sam Trammell was excellent as a unkempt Louisiana crack-head. The plot seems to move in circles with the flashbacks, but not in a bad way. Guide: F-bomb, *, nudity (Mecah Foss) Sueann Han as token hot Asian chick.

With great skill Tim McCann - together with Alan McIntyre Smith great cinematography-builds a tense movie, full of flashbacks,perfectly following lead character Sonny's incoherent mind while he searches for an impossible redemption. Every framing highlights his loneliness and his vulnerability in front of a reality he refuses to accept enough to annihilate himself into it.A group of extraordinarily true characters and a terribly seedy environment surround an exceptional Sam Trammell,able to raise both anger and empathy towards a man that instead of really living chooses to run after his ghosts, even if there's no hope awaiting for him at the end of his road. After "White Rabbit", another little jewel by the same team.

One of those films that stays with you long after the credits have rolled; touching and truly human. The Aftermath is a beautiful film that shows the darker side of the human condition and the aftermath of a life changed in an instance. Thoughtful from inception, The Aftermath is brilliantly directed and the cast, that is made up of industry natives and local newbies, give the film a sense of truth that is not easily achieved. The film captures the essence of a true to life fall through the rabbit hole where nothing is at it seems and everyone and everything around is not as it appears. A stunning performance by Sam Trammell makes it impossible to not believe him as the broken Sonny. Trammell, Shaun S. Sanghani, and Tim McCane make a great team and have yet again created a film that gives us no choice but to take notice.

Greetings again from the darkness. Watching someone whose life has crumbled due to guilt, grief or drugs makes for an uncomfortable movie to view, but when one character has been crushed by all three, it results in the ultimate downer. Director and co-writer Tim McCall subjects us to life in the proverbial gutter – despite lead character Sonny's distorted hope. Sam Trammell ("True Blood") plays Sonny, a messy drug-addict living in a seedy motel and rummaging through the underbelly of his town. Sonny is trying to arrange a face to face meeting with his estranged wife on their wedding anniversary, so that he can apologize for his behavior during the marriage and during marriage counseling. The problem is that she won't return his calls, and her family understandably blocks his efforts to make contact. Heck, seems to only own one shirt and he's not even sure what day it is! His plan involves stealing the necklace he bought for her during better times – when he owned a business and they had a beautiful home in the suburbs. He later pawned the necklace, which leads to the burglary. Of course, as viewers we quickly gather that his efforts are without hope, though we assume it's due to his disgusting appearance and inability to stay clean. Sonny's wife is played by Trammell's real life girlfriend Missy Yager, and Vanessa Ferlito (Grindhouse: Death Proof) has a key role as a tough lady who recognizes an opportunity when she sees it … an, though this could never be mistaken for a nature documentary, she teaches us a difference between farm geese and wild geese. But this is Sam Trammell's spotlight much like Trainspotting belonged to a young Ewen MacGregor. He tears into the not-so-sympathetic Sonny with abandon and a total lack of ego. Director McCann and Mr. Trammell team up for a gritty and grimy look at the tragic fall from society of a man who made mistakes and refused to own up to them. Filmed in Alexandria, Louisiana, the title describes what we see (outside of the flashbacks), and the musical choices are very fitting – especially Marian Anderson's "Poor Me". Don't expect joyful moments or a story of redemption … life isn't always like the movies.