Natural Selection

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival (Austin), this 2011 Seattle International Film Festival entry is yet another road picture. This time the two mismatched folks are an escaped felon and a devout Christian housewife.

Due to a youthful indiscretion, the housewife has spent decades in unwilling celibacy. Her sanctimonious husband has figured out a way to relieve his sexual frustrations and still "do good." (You'll smile.)

The upshot is, she thinks she has found her husband's long-lost druggie son and is trying to take him "back home" to meet his daddy. The guy has other plans...

I liked it, but I would have liked it more if that young man hadn't been such an unwashed scuzz....