The independent film “The Frontier Boys” which won 2011 Best Feature Drama at the Sabaoth International Film Festival in Milan, Italy, opens in its hometown Michigan this weekend.
“We’ve taken ‘The Frontier Boys’ from Charlevoix to Milan, Italy to Hollywood, California, and I’m always thrilled to bring Michigan with me wherever we show the film,” said Director John Grooters. “The Frontier Boys is a Michigan movie through and through. It captures the essence of small town Michigan in late winter where people are warmer and wiser than you might have imagined. We’ve been wonderfully surprised to play for packed theaters everywhere and receive truly heartfelt, enthusiastic responses to the film.”
Starring Tim Lofing (Brent Fencett), Jake Boyce (Jackson Carlson), Taylor DeRoo (T.J. Lewis), and Jedidiah Grooters (Jed Bracken,) “The Frontier Boys” is the story of four high school boys whose undefeated basketball season and friendship are threatened after a drive-by shooting leaves one of them in a coma and one of them with a secret. They are inseparable on and off the court until Brent gets caught up in his older brother’s mixed-up life.
In the last gasp of winter in a small Northern Michigan town, four high school sophomore boys are living on top of the world. Best friends, classmates, and peers, T.J., Jed, and Brent are all starting players for an undefeated varsity basketball team. Jackson, their loudmouthed hyper-enthusiastic friend, makes more noise for his three friends than an entire cheerleading squad. All four share a history of companionship, a notable nickname, and all the confidence and exuberance of youth.
Their basketball season is shattered when Brent’s older brother, Mike, attracts an Irish gang leader named Sean O’Sullivan. Sean is intent on setting up a rural meth lab and supply operation in the peaceful community. Despite plenty of cash to fund the start-up, Sean isn’t sure that he can pull together a team of locals to do the dirty work.
Since Mike is the one who invited Sean to town, he naturally sees himself in a key leadership role in the gang. Both Mike and Sean see the need and benefit of having a high-school aged member to infiltrate the school system from within. Mike entices his younger brother Brent to check out an opportunity to make some serious money. Against his better judgment, Brent agrees and ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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