Randy and the Mob (2006)
with Ray McKinnon, Lisa Blount and Walton Goggins
Ray McKinnon’s South is not the gentile, courtly south with belles in hoop dresses, nor is it a hillbilly swamp where grown men are made to sqeal like pigs. Rather, the filmmaker’s (Chrystal, The Accountant) south is a complicated tangle of decent people who sometimes do bad things, and sometimes just get by, in a land of kudzu and truck stops.
Randy is a wheeler-dealer who comes up against loan sharks and must turn to his gay twin brother to help him out (writer and director McKinnon plays both parts). Helping Randy, in her own way, is his chronically depressed wife (Lisa Blount), a baton instructor with carpal tunnel syndrome, and an unlikely ally: the mob enforcer Tino Armani (Walton Goggins). The three main actors are also the producers of the this gentle but aching comedy. Burt Reynolds also stars.