January 7, 2014I heard somewhere that the director of Ain't Them Bodies Saints got some song lyrics wrong and that is how they came up with the title of the movie. Kind of a funny story (and it may not even be true), but to me that's a bit like having a baby and naming it after a song you thought you heard on the way to the hospital. Regardless, this was a pretty good movie. Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as young lovers who are about to have a baby. But before they do, they steal some money and get chased by the police. Mara shoots a police officer (Ben Foster) and Affleck takes the blame. He gets sentenced to several years in prison and his baby is born while he is on the inside. A few years in, he breaks out and tries to get back home with the authorities closing in on him. It has been done before, but it was still a good movie, with solid performances. Mara was not bad, but Affleck and Foster really carried the movie and made it worth watching.
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