It doesn't get much more Romeo and Juliet than "Deep Powder," a drug melodrama based on true events but otherwise inspired by a love driven by classic class conflict. The handsome, broke townie in this instance is "Evil Dead" star (deal with it) Shiloh Fernandez as Danny, a puppy dog-cute snow-lift operator. He's got eyes for kewpie-doll rich girl Natasha (Haley Bennett), who informs her that she accidentally dropped her wallet on the lift, but that she had no pressing need for him to give it back. The shock is that the wallet has four hundred dollars that she presumably won't miss, which is even more incredible considering this was the early '80s, and inflation translates that to roughly $6,056.55. Roughly. Check the math. Natasha's flirtation with Danny, which has a slight edge of mocking cruelty to it, is laughed off by her prep school friends who don't even bother to remember his name. Theirs is a story of future successes, board rooms and big brothers and sisters...
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