POPLAR BLUFF is an independent feature film which will be directed by award-winning writer/director Michael Peter Bolus. Award-winning cinematographer Guy Peires will serve as Director of Photography. The film will be shot on location in Union, Iowa.
POPLAR BLUFF
Synopsis
On a blistering hot day in a nondescript Midwest town, a black-clad stranger arrives on the afternoon bus. He is a struggling writer from New York City, and he has come to find the long-forgotten gravestone of his aunt, who died as a child under mysterious circumstances some fifty years earlier. What he discovers is as startling as it is disturbing, and affects his life in ways he could never have predicted.
POPLAR BLUFF is a story of loss, revenge, self-deception, and the never-ending, cyclical patterns of history--one told with crackling tension, unremitting suspense, and a relentless, deep sense of foreboding. The story--which contains both powerful visceral elements and strong political undertones--is topical and timeless, idiosyncratic and universal.
POPLAR BLUFF will simultaneously embrace, combine, and undermine the generic conventions of suspense, mystery, family drama, and psychological thriller.
