No. 63 Return (2011) 50 of 100
This film lands right in the middle of the Shannon oeuvre and it’s a decent effort with a significant role for the big man. The film follows the highs and mainly lows of Kelli, who is a military reservist returning home following a tour of duty. She tells friends that she didn’t have it too bad but she clearly has more baggage than an airport carousel. She has two cute daughters and is married to Shannon, whose character name is helpfully ‘Mike’. Mike is a plumber and a simple man who gets great joy out of blooper videos and in finding a particularly good plumbing job. Kelli initially gets back into the swing of her mundane life including at her factory job where she works with Mickey off of ‘Boardwalk Empire’. She goes out drinking with her pals and later gets pulled over for drink driving. To avoid jail she attends an AA meeting where she meets fellow drunk and veteran, John Slattery off ‘Mad Men’. Things crumble further when it turns out that Mike is pumping t...