The studio behind the noir thriller “Cut Bank,” named for the movie’s Montana location, has released a trailer for the movie.
Actors Liam Hemsworth, John Malkovich, and Billy Bob Thornton star in the movie about a high school athlete named Dwayne McLaren, played by Hemsworth of “Hunger Games” fame, who has been looking for a way out of his small town. But his plans to leave town are derailed by a murder and a police investigation headed by the local sheriff, played by Malkovich.
From a previous Beacon story: “The small Hi-Line community of Cut Bank is bracing for its 15 minutes of fame as a feature length film of the same name premiered June 16 at the Los Angeles Film Festival. “Cut Bank” features Liam Hemsworth, Billy Bob Thornton and John Malkovich in a dark thriller set in the town of 2,900 people just east of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Although the film is set in Cut Bank – and even includes its iconic World’s Largest Penguin statue – it was actually filmed near Edmonton, Alberta last year. The fact that the town was going to be the setting of a feature length movie took Amy Overstreet, the executive director of the Cut Bank Chamber of Commerce, by surprise.”