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Robot”), the one man who might be able to save her son when the corn collapses around him inside a silo. When tragedy strikes, the last person Valerie wants to see is the convenience store owner and volunteer fire chief Frank ( Jeremy Holm of “House of Cards” and “Mr. His pal Lucha ( Danny Ramirez) is also learning the ropes there. Her boy Cody ( Jack DiFalco) dreams of heavy-metal glory, but works at Adler’s as farm jobs are all that New Hope offers to kids his age.

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Valerie (Broadway and TV actress Jill Paice) is a single-mom/nurse practitioner at the local nursing home. He’s got one experienced set of helping hands, and a couple of teenagers on the job, too. He’s 40ish, and took over for his aged father ( Chris Ellis) who has dementia, who still lives at home. Junior ( Jim Parrack of “9-1-1 Lonestar” and “True Blood”) runs Adler Grain & Feed now. They’ve made a smart, layered and serious-minded melodrama where text, context and subtext collide. It’s a finely-detailed, sharply-observed drama from a team that made a documentary - “Silo: Edge of the Real World” - that provided their research.

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It’s a common occurrence wherever grain is farmed, weary old men or unwary young ones make one mistake, or a series of them, and often-futile hopes of help are the nearest volunteer fire department or another one in the next town over.

“Silo” is a quietly gripping “trouble in farm country” thriller wrapped in tragedy, a story of a “grain entrapment” in a corn storage silo. “Everybody knows everybody” is a double-edged sword, as people grow up with each other, remember failures and expectations harden into stone.Īnd a shrinking, aging workforce, beyond the reach of or exempted from OSHA protection, wrestles with bigger and more complex machines as “scale” becomes the only way to survive.

In farm country, “We work in acres, not hours” lives are lived in small social circles on a big, underpopulated canvas.

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