#ArkansasMovie
Genre: Thriller, Dark Comedy
Rating: R for violence, language throughout, drug material and brief nudity
U.S. Release Date: May 1, 2020 (In Select Theaters, on Apple, Amazon, and On Demand platforms)
May 5, 2020 (Blu-ray™ and DVD)
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Cast: Liam Hemsworth (Kyle), Clark Duke (Swin), Michael Kenneth Williams (Almond), Vivica A. Fox (Her), Eden Brolin (Johnna), Chandler Duke (Nick), with John Malkovich (Bright), and Vince Vaughn (Frog)
Directed by: Clark Duke
Screenplay by: Clark Duke and
Andrew Boonkrong
Based on the Novel by: John Brandon
Produced by: Patrick Hibler, Jeff Rice, Clark Duke, Martin Sprock
Executive Producers: Philip Kim, Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard, Patrick Muldoon, Paris
Kassidokostas-Latsis, Terry Douglas, Jean-Luc De Fanti, Alexis
Varouxakis, Andre Relis, Jason Allison, Michael S. Smith,
Franchesca Lantz, David Gilbery, Charlie Dorfman, Kyle Tomlin, Tim
Osby, Ryan R. Johnson, Rob Moran, Stephanie Caleb, Cindy Cowan
Director of Photography: Steven Meizler
Production Designer: Scott Enge
Edited by: Patrick J. Don Vito, ACE
Costume Designer: Ashley Heathcock
Music by: Devendra Banhart and
Noah Georgeson
Music Supervisor: Ashely Waldron
Songs Performed by: The Flaming Lips
Co-Executive Producers: Elsa Ramo, Tiffany Boyle, Luke Daniels, Alan Pao, Taylor Bergesch, Fiona Luong
Associate Produced by: Jessica Bennett, Mickey Guerin, Kostas Tsoukalas
Executive in Charge of
Production: Richard Salvatore
Casting by: Brandon Henry Rodriquez, CSA
SYNOPSIS
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). 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 South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.
