HE’S DOING HIS BEST. IT’S NOT GOING WELL.

After his mother’s death, a small-town police officer unravels in increasingly public and inappropriate ways. Grief collides with his job, his relationships, and his utter lack of emotional restraint; every attempt to regain control only makes things worse.

Writer-director-star Jim Cummings won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2018 with this expansion of his Sundance 2016 short — and every second of that origin story shows in the control and total commitment on screen. In the top 50 highest-rated films of 2018 on Letterboxd.

Languages: English. English closed captions available.