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VIDEO – Harlan County, USA –
Feb. 7, 2025 – Roe and Bacon effectively portray the troubled couple, still in love with each other but facing different ends of the addiction spectrum. If some scenes in the film seem like clichés, it’s really unavoidable, since there’s nothing as numbingly repetitive as living like this. Filmed on location in Harlan County, Kentucky (with cinematography by Matthew Boyd and production design by Michael McKowen), Hazard vividly captures the empty lives of a people in a town that’s in the process of slowly disappearing, Will (Alex Roe) spends his days wandering around his nearly abandoned town, either searching for drugs or under the influence himself. He makes sure that his coal miner father (Steven Ogg), who suffers from chronic pain, gets his regular fix.
Every day he goes to visit his wife, Sara (Sosie Bacon) and their young son. He longs to be part of the family again, but she’s forbidden him to come back home until he gets clean as she has. It’s clear, however, that her hold on sobriety is tenuous at best. She fears that he’ll drag her back into the addict’s life.
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