Cold in July (2014) on Netflix
In 1989 Texas, Richard Dane shoots an intruder in his home and is called a hero. The dead man's father, paroled convict Ben Russel, makes a veiled threat about Richard's son.
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Plot summary
Ann Dane wakes her husband Richard when a window breaks in their Laborde, Texas, home in 1989. Richard shoots the intruder, a wanted felon named Freddy Russel, and is told the killing was self-defense. Shaken, he goes to Freddy's burial, where the dead man's father, Ben Russel, a paroled convict, confronts him in his car and mentions Richard's son, Jordan. Richard collects Jordan from school and arranges to meet Ann at the police station, but the police say Ben has broken no law and cannot give the family protection. Officers post a guard at the house only after the Danes come home to a broken front door.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cold in July (2014)
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- Jim Mickle said it took seven years to get Cold in July made from when he first read the novel, and the first draft of the script, a verbatim copy of the novel, ran 220 pages before he and Nick Damici cut it down.
- Jim Mickle had approached Sam Shepard about the film seven years earlier but heard Shepard was retiring from acting; after Michael C. Hall was cast, Mickle contacted him again and Shepard expressed interest in the script.
- Sam Shepard contributed to the Cold in July script: when Jim Mickle and Nick Damici got stuck on a difficult scene and debated removing it entirely, Shepard rewrote it and returned with a single typewritten page, which Mickle accepted as-is.
- Cold in July was the first Jim Mickle film he did not edit himself; he said tight deadlines forced him to delegate the job to a like-minded collaborator.
