Described by Peter Debruge in Variety as “one part The Night of the Hunter, two parts Huckleberry Finn,” the film is a coming of age adventure set in rural Arkansas.

Its protagonist is 14-year old boy Ellis (Tye Sheridan) who convinces his best friend Neckbone to escape to an uninhabited island as a means of getting away from his folks--Ellis is in trouble at home.

He has heard rumours of a boat left sitting in the treetops of the island after a flood, but when the boys stumble across a fugitive hiding out on the island, their adventure takes a much more thrilling, if not downright perilous path that brings about a life-changing experience.

Reese Witherspoon, who, like McConaughey, could do with a career reboot, and Sam Shepard co-star.

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