October Country

Every family has skeletons in its closet and the working class Moshers are no exception. The head of the family, Donal, suffers nightmares about the Vietnam War. His single sister Denise believes she is a witch and spends most of her time at a graveyard communing with spirits. Donal's daughter Donna became pregnant by a man who beat her, only to see her daughter Daneal make similar mistakes. Over the course of one year, documentary maker Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, who is a writer, have succeeded in making an intimate and open portrait of three generations fighting to achieve the American dream. This melancholy film uses sharp editing and creative camera work to portray the Moshers as a family caught up in a vicious cycle of poverty and poor decision-making