Stray Dogs

Drama (2002) 97 minutes ~ Color

Set in 1958 and adapted from the award-winning stage play by Julie Jensen, Stray Dogs is a Southern gothic film about the last night of a bad marriage. Darla Carter reaches her turning point this October day, when most of the men in her Appalachian town are engaged in a vicious, chaotic hunt to round up and kill stray dogs. In the afternoon, Darla gets terrifying news: she is pregnant again, and she believes the baby will be a girl. Legend has it that female children cannot survive on Carter Mountain. Darla has lost three female infants in a row, and has come to believe the curse is real. For the sake of her children's future, she resolves to leave her husband and Carter Mountain once and for all.

Director: Catherine Crouch

Writers: Catherine Crouch, Julie Jensen (play)

Stars: Guinevere Turner, Dot-Marie Jones, Bill Sage