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Carried Away, written and directed by Tom Huckabee, is a wonderful indie comedy drama that’s essentially about a family seemingly breaking apart around the holidays. Sweet but never saccharine and, at times, goddamn hilarious, it’s the kind of movie that makes a bad day seem not that bad at all. You may go into it not expecting much (if you’ve seen one indie comedy drama you’ve seen them all), but
Carried Away will, I think, exceed your expectations by a mile and more.
Carried Away stars Gabriel Horn as Ed Franklin, a young actor who flies from Los Angeles to his family home in Texas for the holidays. Ed doesn’t seem to fit in with his family, especially his sternish father Rex (Mark Walters) and his brothers Steve (Bryan Massey) and, to a lesser extent, Davy (Tyler Corie). Steve is sick with cancer but is also bit of a belligerent jerk, and Davy has serious legal issues (he got caught with weed and might go to jail). The only pers