''Burn Country'' is a 2016 American

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by

Ian Olds Ian Olds is an American film director. His directing credits include the documentary '' Occupation: Dreamland'', which follows the 1/505 company of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fallujah, Iraq in early 2004 during the Iraq War. Olds also created ...

and written by Ian Olds and Paul Felten. The film stars James Franco, Melissa Leo, Rachel Brosnahan,

Dominic Rains Dominic Rains (; born Amin Nazemzadeh, fa, امین ناظم زاده, label=none, March 1, 1982) is an American actor, best known for his roles in independent films, including ''The Taqwacores'' (2010) and '' A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'' ( ...

, Tim Kniffin, Thomas Jay Ryan, and James Oliver Wheatley. The film was released on December 9, 2016, by

Orion Pictures Orion Pictures (legal name Orion Releasing, LLC) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Amazon through its Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) subsidiary. In its original operating period, the company produced and released films ...

and Samuel Goldwyn Films. Principal photography took place largely in Sonoma County, California. Much of the film was shot in

Sebastopol, California Sebastopol ( ) is a city in Sonoma County, in California with a recorded population of 7,521, per the 2020 U.S. Census. Sebastopol was once primarily a plum and apple-growing region. Today, wine grapes are the predominant agriculture crop, a ...

Santa Rosa, California Santa Rosa (Spanish language, Spanish for "Rose of Lima, Saint Rose") is a city and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County, in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area ...

, and Bodega Bay, California.

Cast

* James Franco as Lindsay * Melissa Leo as Gloria * Rachel Brosnahan as Sandra *

as Osman * Thomas Jay Ryan as Dmitri Sokurov *James Oliver Wheatley as Gabe *Gail Gamble as Critic *Wendy Vanden Heuvel as Maddie *Ari Vozaitis as Pyro Kid *Tim Kniffin as Carl *Gabe Maxson as Marcus *Michelle Maxson as Karen

Release

The film premiered at the

Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by TriBeCa Productions, Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive progra ...

on April 16, 2016. The film was released on December 9, 2016, by

and Samuel Goldwyn Films.

References

External links

* * 2016 films 2010s English-language films 2016 drama films American drama films 2010s American films {{2010s-drama-film-stub