Arkansas — Official Trailer

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added: Wed, Mar 11th '20

Vince Vaughn is a heartless drug kingpin in the first official trailer for "Arkansas."

Also starring Liam Hemsworth, Clark Duke, with John Malkovich, Vivica A. Fox, and Eden Brolin, the upcoming Arkansas-set crime film is based on the novel of the same name by John Brandon.

Hemsworth and Duke play a couple of two-bit drug smugglers who find themselves in hot water when they cut into the business of a ruthless drug trafficker, played here by Vaughn.

The film is the directorial debut of comic actor Clark Duke, who also co-wrote the script with Andrew Boonkrong.

"Arkansas" was to make its world premiere this month at the SXSW Film Festival, before it was canceled due to fears of the coronavirus.

The film is now slated to be released in select theaters and on VOD beginning May 1st. It will then arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on May 5th. Watch the trailer, above.

synopsis:
In Clark Duke's directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they've never met.

Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog's proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin then settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johanna find themselves directly in Frog's crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire.

Based on John Brandon's best-selling book of the same name, ARKANSAS weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.

 

directed by   Clark Duke

starring   Liam Hemsworth, Clark Duke, Vince Vaughn, John Malkovich, Vivica A. Fox, Eden Brolin

release date   May 1, 2020 (in select theaters and on VOD)