Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue (Chris Kerson) and DD Davis (Will Blagrove) return home from Iraq to the crime-stricken neighborhood in North Philadelphia they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith (Judy Jerome), whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. DD returns to find that his older brother Darnell (Nakia Dillard) has risen to become the neighborhood kingpin.
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Cost of a Soul, is the feature film writing and directorial debut of Sean Kirkpatrick, a film graduate of Pennsylvania State University. It is the gritty tale of two wounded veterans who return home to the ghetto they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence. The film was shot in the spirit of the 1940’s film noir, but set in the modern context of a Philadelphia ghetto neighborhood. The locations used during production were some of the most violent neighborhoods in America as Kirkpatrick’s goal was to embrace the reality of the situation within those neighborhoods
After graduating from film school, Kirkpatrick moved to Los Angeles in 2007 to pursue his dreams of becoming a filmmaker. In 2008, Kirkpatrick penned Cost of a Soul and in 2009 he assembled a cast and crew in his hometown of Philadelphia to begin production on the film. Cost of a Soul has already caught the attention of various film festivals and was an official selection of the 2010 Hollywood Film Festival, 2010 Cinequest, 2010 HBO NY International Latino Film Festival, 2010 Brooklyn International Film Festival, 2010 Toronto Moving Image Film Festival, 2010 San Antonio Film Festival and the 2010 Rehoboth Beach Film Festival. Additionally, the film will be featured at the 2011 Kansas City FilmFest and 2011 Philadelphia Cinefest.
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Directed by: Sean Kirkpatrick
Written by: Sean Kirkpatrick
Cast: Chris Kerson, Will Blagrove, Judy Jerome, Mark Borkowski, Greg Almquist and Maddie M. Jones
Produced by: Edward J. Eberwine III, Sean Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Risinger, Stephen Bozzacco, Ryan Lacen, Ian Simon
Executive Producer: Sean Kirkpatrick, J.P. Mascaro Sr
Rating: R
Runtime: 90 Minutes
Synopsis
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue (Chris Kerson) and DD Davis (Will Blagrove) return home from Iraq to the crime-stricken neighborhood in North Philadelphia they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith (Judy Jerome), whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. DD returns to find that his older brother Darnell (Nakia Dillard) has risen to become the neighborhood kingpin.
Tommy meets his disabled six year-old daughter, Hope (Maddie M. Jones), for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. DD faces the pressure to save his younger brother, James (Daveed Ramsay), from following in Darnell’s dangerous footsteps. Tommy and DD find themselves trapped in the same ghetto they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence.
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