Town Has Turned to Dust, A

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USA • 1998 • 90m •

• Directed by: Rob Nilsson. • Starring: Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, Gabriel Olds, Judy Collins, Barbara Jane Reams, Maxx Payne, Frankie Avina, Zahn McClarnon, Mike Holona, Jim Christian, Scott Wilkinson, J. Scott Bronson, Neblis Francois. • Music by: Tim Alexander.

In a futuristic desert hamlet, a ruthless town boss lynches a falsely accused Native American teen, setting the stage for revolt and a clash with a troubled, drunken sheriff.

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Two hundred years in the future, in a radioactive scrap metal mining town on the almost completely abandoned, draught ridden, dying planet Earth, a young man of a "second class race" is lynched for the supposed beating and attempted rape of the wife of the town boss before he can be taken off planet to the new home of humanity for trial. The act exhumes an old guilt that begins the final disintegration of a town already half buried in the ugly dust of racism and prejudice.

This was a nice surprise as Sci-Fi Channel movies are hit and miss. Steven Lang does an excellent job as the useless, haunted town drunk and Sheriff Harvey Denton. The "Cain and Abel-ish" brother like relationship between his character and Ron Perlman's town boss and mob ring leader Jerry Paul is well done by both actors. You can see it there dying, being killed by time, guilt, booze and power. The abusive love-hate relationship between Jerry Paul and his wife Maya (Barbara Jane Reams) is very realistic, scary in its unhealthy depths of possession and desire to care and be cared for.

Review by ragana from the Internet Movie Database.

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