Ballast

Director: Lance Hammer

Genre: Drama

Release Date: October 01, 2008

Duration: 96 minutes

Cast: Michael J. Smith, Sr., Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail, Bonner Ventress

Overview: In the cold light of winter in rural Mississippi Delta, Marlee (Tarra Riggs), a single African-American mother, struggles to scratch a living for themselves and their 12-year-old son, James (Ross JimMyron ), Which has begun to stumble under the pressure drugs and violence. So when the opportunity to seek safe harbor in a new home arises, grab that, despite the fact that ownership is shared by Lawrence (Michael J. Smith, Sr.), a man with whom he has a long and bitter past. At closeness thrust in the circumstances, a subtle interdependence and common purpose emerge from Marlee and Lawrence, since they tend to be old wounds, test new waters, and tentatively forward.