No. 4 Shotgun Stories (2007) 27 of 100
This is an early to mid Shannon offering and one where he gets top billing. Although released in 2007, IMDb says most of the principal photography took place in 2004, making the on screen Shannon around 30 years old. He does look a bit younger than that and a good fit for his character, Son Hayes, the eldest of three brothers. The film is set in the cotton fields of rural Arkansas, in contemporary times. Life is clearly hard with Son and his brothers barely scratching a living. One brother lives in a tent and another in a van. Son himself is a failed gambler with an estranged wife who dreams of something better. One night the boys’ mother shows up, a lady who looks barely older than Shannon himself, who announces that their father has died. The boys show total indifference, failing to ask even how he met his end. They do ask for the details of the funeral which spells trouble from the off. We learn that Dad dumped the mother and three boys and started a new life with a new ...