Newly arrived on home video -- Apple, Amazon, and On Demand platforms, plus Blu-ray and DVD -- the dark comic crime flick Arakansas features a plethora of familiar faces, affecting accents and pretending to be tough guys. Taken straight, I think I would pass, but since it's billed as a 'dark comedy,' it sounds much more palatable. Actor Clark Duke, known for broad comedies like Hot Tub Time Machine, makes his feature directorial debut and also plays a leading role, alongside Liam Hemsworth, Michael Kenneth Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Eden Brolin, and Chandler Duke with John Malkovich and Vince Vaughn. Those names alone draw my interest. Add to that the source material, the debut novel by John Brandon, which likely gives the film a broader...
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- 5/5/2020
- Screen Anarchy
As Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) shares during an early voiceover, organized crime in the backwoods of southern America isn’t very organized. This is good since few of the people in the wholesale drug dealing business of which he’s operated for just a little while are smart. He probably wouldn’t call himself very smart either since he’s content to follow his orders to the letter rather than harbor ambitions about becoming the boss. He’s perceptive in ways that ensure he maintains an upper hand in all situations, but never greedy enough to tip things so far off-balance that he has nowhere to go but down. Kyle sees the angles, parses secrets, and plans ahead in the hopes of staying alive long enough for none of it to matter.
So it’s no surprise he’d end up getting paired with his antithesis in Swin (Clark Duke). Kyle...
So it’s no surprise he’d end up getting paired with his antithesis in Swin (Clark Duke). Kyle...
- 5/4/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
In Clark Duke’s directorial debut Arkansas, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin then settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon’s best-selling book of the same name, Arkansas weaves together three decades of Deep...
- 4/9/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Liam Hemsworth and Clark Duke retaliate against their drug dealer boss in the trailer for Lionsgate's Arkansas.
The thriller follows Kyle (Hemsworth) and Swin (Duke), who work for an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn). By day they pose as park rangers, while by night they work as low-level drug couriers. Their world is then upended following many inept decisions, which leave Kyle, Swin and Johnna (Eden Brolin) directly in Frog’s crosshairs.
Michael Kenneth Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Chandler Duke and John Malkovich also star in Clark Duke's directorial debut. The film is based on John Brandon'...
The thriller follows Kyle (Hemsworth) and Swin (Duke), who work for an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn). By day they pose as park rangers, while by night they work as low-level drug couriers. Their world is then upended following many inept decisions, which leave Kyle, Swin and Johnna (Eden Brolin) directly in Frog’s crosshairs.
Michael Kenneth Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Chandler Duke and John Malkovich also star in Clark Duke's directorial debut. The film is based on John Brandon'...
- 3/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Liam Hemsworth and Clark Duke retaliate against their drug dealer boss in the trailer for Lionsgate's Arkansas.
The thriller follows Kyle (Hemsworth) and Swin (Duke), who work for an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn). By day they pose as park rangers, while by night they work as low-level drug couriers. Their world is then upended following many inept decisions, which leave Kyle, Swin and Johnna (Eden Brolin) directly in Frog’s crosshairs.
Michael Kenneth Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Chandler Duke and John Malkovich also star in Clark Duke's directorial debut. The film is based on John Brandon'...
The thriller follows Kyle (Hemsworth) and Swin (Duke), who work for an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn). By day they pose as park rangers, while by night they work as low-level drug couriers. Their world is then upended following many inept decisions, which leave Kyle, Swin and Johnna (Eden Brolin) directly in Frog’s crosshairs.
Michael Kenneth Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Chandler Duke and John Malkovich also star in Clark Duke's directorial debut. The film is based on John Brandon'...
- 3/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lionsgate has launched a new trailer for the Liam Hemsworth led comedy-thriller ‘Arkansas’
In Clark Duke’s directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). However, after one too many inept decisions, Kyle and Swin find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon’s best-selling book of the same name, Arkansas weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.
Directed by Duke who co-wrote the story alongside Andrew Boonkrong the film also stars Duke,...
In Clark Duke’s directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). However, after one too many inept decisions, Kyle and Swin find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon’s best-selling book of the same name, Arkansas weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.
Directed by Duke who co-wrote the story alongside Andrew Boonkrong the film also stars Duke,...
- 3/16/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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