Rivers Wash Over Me (original) (raw)
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2009 American film
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Directed by | John G. Young |
Written by | John G. YoungDarien Sills-Evans |
Produced by | Darien Sills-EvansDexter Davis |
Starring | Derrick L. MiddletonAidan Schultz-MeyerElizabeth DennisDarien Sills-EvansCameron Mitchell MasonDuane McLaughlinPamela Holden Stewart |
Cinematography | Robert Ansbro |
Edited by | Steven Thomas |
Music by | Kenneth Lampl |
Productioncompany | D Street Pictures |
Distributed by | Strand Releasing |
Release date | June 6, 2009 (2009-06-06) |
Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Rivers Wash Over Me is a 2009 drama film directed by John G. Young. Young shares the screenplay with Darien Sills-Evans. The film was produced by Sills-Evans, with Dexter Davis as executive producer.
The film touches on race relations, incest, drugs, and growing up gay in the American South. A recent New York City transplant, Sequan Greene (Derrick L. Middleton) has been sent to live in Alabama after the recent death of his mother. He is brutally raped by his cousin Michael Wilis (Cameron Mitchell Mason). It becomes clear that Michael also is gay - a victim as well as a victimizer. He says, "I can’t be a faggot ...You’re the faggot. You’re my faggot." Sequan is also bullied and beaten up at school.
Sequan soon finds a friend in Lori Anderson (Elizabeth Dennis), the girlfriend of drug dealer/basketball player Ahmed Robins (Duane McLaughlin). Lori is the town's "bad girl" who has a heart of gold. Although she freebases, snorts coke throughout the school day, steals guns and sleeps with the town basketball star, she is immediately taken by admiration of Sequan and his brazen nonconformity. Despite Sequan's unwillingness, Lori manages to befriend him, bringing him out of his shell and eventually introducing him to both moonshine and her gay brother, Jake (Aidan Schultz-Meyer).
Derrick L. Middleton as Sequan Greene
Aidan Schultz-Meyer as Jake Anderson
Elizabeth Dennis as Lori Anderson
Darien Sills-Evans as Charles King
Cameron Mitchell Mason as Michael Willis
Duane McLaughlin as Ahmed Robins
Pamela Holden Stewart as Alice
Julia Carothers Hughes as Celeste Anderson
Terrance Epps as Coach Williams
Tina Jetter as Charity
Leslie Jones as LuEllen
Paul Kelly as Mr. Hack
Alain Lauture as Skinny Tim Buchanan
Sonequa Martin as Shawna King
Conor Romero as Billy
Xosha Roquemore as Racine Buchanan
Chester A. Sims II as Mayor Rickets
Don Striano as Tom Lemmings
Damian Washington as Dwayne
Eric Watson Williams as Deputy Lewis Ratch