- Directed by Eli Powers
- Written by Eli Powers
- Stars Amanda Seyfried, Thomas Sadoski
- Run Time: 16:56
- Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=illWLEB0vok
Synopsis
A man with a strange eye gets off a truck and goes hiking. He comes across a woman feeding her horse; he’s here for the job. She asks him about his eye, and he says he was born that way. She tells him the rules and lets him sleep in the barn; he’s very agreeable, but she’s pretty tough-sounding. His name is Christian, and she’s Serene.
He soon gets to work doing things around the farm. Serene watches him out the window. That night, he hears something and wakes up; there’s a naked man shivering in the corner of the barn. Nope– just a dream!
Or was it? Christian starts sleeping with a knife under his pillow. Serene asks if he has any attachments, and he doesn’t anymore.
Commentary
“A horse is a horse, of course, of course,” but not always.
This looks really good, very sharp and stylish. It’s even got a song in the middle. This starts out interesting, and it could go a bunch of different ways. The first half could be the start of any generic Hallmark romance movie, but obviously, that’s not it.
It’s not quite clear who the crazy one is until the very end.