DEAD MANS BURDEN

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• Release Year: 2012
• Genre: Drama, Western
• Plot: Reeling from a Civil War that divided both their country and their family, a brother and sister reunite on the western frontier only to uncover each other's unforgivable secrets.; ; The year is 1870, and a fragmented America still strains to pick up the pieces from a savage Civil War. Martha (Clare Bowen, Nashville) and her husband Heck (David Call, Fringe) struggle to survive on their homestead in the rough New Mexico frontier. When a mining company expresses interest in buying their land, Martha and Heck see their ticket to a better life.; ; Their hopeful plans are complicated when Martha's oldest brother Wade (Barlow Jacobs, Shotgun Stories) - whom she thought died in the war - returns to the family homestead after learning of their father's death. A defector to the Union Army, Wade soon discovers Martha is hiding secrets of her own, and tensions mount as clashing convictions begin to overshadow their desire to reconcile.
• Cast: Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Richard Riehle, Jerry Clarke, Adam O'Byrne, Travis Hammer, Luce Rains, William Sterchi, Jared Moshe, Veronica Nickel
• Director: Jared Moshe
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: New Video DVD, Flatiron Film Company
• Media Format: Movie