14A - Mature Subject Matter & Nudity.

SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS is not a police procedural. It does fit the basic template of that genre—there is, admittedly, a murder, and the central character is a police officer assigned to solve it—but this is not a film about law and order, or crime and punishment.

Veteran Swedish actor Peter Stormare, who has turned in memorable performances in films like THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS and THE BIG LEBOWSKI, stars as Walter, a small-town police officer with a violent history. When a murder rocks the town, Walter does his best to investigate, but his past keeps interfering. To Walter, the search for the murderer and the path to his own redemption appear to be one and the same, but things are rarely as simple as they seem.

The latest feature from director Ed Gass-Donnely (THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY), SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS uses its rural Ontario environment and a killer soundtrack from Toronto’s Bruce Peninsula to create an atmosphere that’s both familiar and unique. It’s not quite a murder mystery, because for Walter, there’s more at stake than just a life.

PH