Ain't It Cool's Copernicus reviews Toronto International Film Fest dramatic entry Beneath the Harvest Sky featuring Game of Thrones' Aiden Gillen.
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BENEATH THE HARVEST SKY, the first fiction feature by documentarians Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, is an engaging look at life in a small town in Maine through the eyes of two high school friends, Dominic (Callan McAuliffe) and Casper (Emory Cohen). Dom is hard working and has a bright future, while Casper seems set to follow his father (Aidan Gillen -- Little finger from GAME OF THRONES) Clayton's footsteps into the drug dealing business. Part drama, part coming of age story, part quirky indie, it doesn't fit neatly into any one category. You might call it WINTER'S BONE by way of GARDEN STATE, and I mean that in the best possible way.
The setting, Van Buren, Maine is a sleepy border town whose main industry is potato farming. The local high school even gets a break for the harvest, and all the straight arrow types either work the fields or the local potato chip factory. As is the prerogative of every small-town teenager, they party and screw around while making big plans to get out of their dead-end town. At least, this much is true for Dom, who is steadily working at the potato plant and saving his paycheck to buy his metaphorical getaway car. He and Casper have plans to move to Boston together, but their dreams don't consist of much more than going to see some Red Sox games. Casper, while good natured at heart, seems destined for a dead end. He's knocked up his girlfriend, is acting
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