'Arkansas'- A Drug-Filled Thriller
There are plenty of ways in which men get involved in a life of crime, and a lot of the time it isn’t necessarily what they want to do with their lives. With that being said, those men can take a situation that they didn’t want a part of and turn it into something greater. ‘Arkansas’ is a film that is going to show us how two men are drawn into a fight they never wanted simply by making a few bad decisions. This draws them into the cross-hairs of the man they originally worked for.
‘Arkansas’ tells the story two men, Kyle and Swin, posing as junior park rangers during the day, they are actually low-level drug couriers by night. Working for drug-lord Frog, the two are constantly watched over by his proxies. Swin ends up settling into his day job and ends up in a relationship with Johanna. Kyle, on the other hand, decides to look into Frog who they haven’t ever met before. With Kyle investigating him and Swin standing out despite being told not to, Frog decides to target the two of them, mistakenly thinking they are a threat to his empire.
‘Arkansas’ stars Liam Hemsworth (Kyle), Clark Duke (Swin), Michael Kenneth Williams (Almond), Vivica A. Fox (Her), Eden Brolin (Johnna), Chandler Duke (Nick), with John Malkovich (Bright), and Vince Vaughn (Frog). This film is Clark Duke’s directorial debut and he also helped write and produce the film. The movie is also being produced by Patrick Hibler, Jeff Rice, and Martin Sprock. Duke wrote the screenplay for the movie alongside Andrew Boonkrong based off the novel by John Brandon. The movie releases on May 1, 2020 (In Select Theaters, on Apple, Amazon, and On Demand platforms) and on May 5, 2020 (Blu-ray™ and DVD).