Stuck Between Stations (2011)

The title is not literal, it is metaphorical. The two main characters, Casper (Sam Rosen) and Becky (Zoe Lister-Jones), are drifting a bit. Caspar is an active duty soldier who is on leave from his post in Afghanistan because his father died, and Becky has been having an affair with her thesis advisor--his wife, who is also the department chair, has just found out and taken her laptop computer, which has all her work on it. So they both have issues. They meet up at a bar, and take an overnight jaunt through Minneapolis. It is a gritty 'Before Sunrise' kind of movie. The two went to K-12 school together. Casapr remembers her well--he haad a crush on her, and she mor eor less rebuffed him, despite some pleasant interactions along the way. Becky has definitely seen that post-high school did not afford her with the kind of lavish devotion that men heaped upon her then. Her affair with her professor is only one example of poor sexual choices. After an evening of adventures, htey end up back at Caspar's home growing up, now his because of his father's death. The two talk about a traumatic event that happened to each of them. They both claim to be unaffected by it, Becky even saying that she chose not to be traumatized--but in fact, they are both a bit broken. Caspar won't go into his father's house--he is camping in the back yard. Becky is involved with an emotionally unavailable man who will never leave his wife. The characters make some progress down the road of recovery, but more importantly, the audience is way ahead of them. Very nice debut effort by Brady Kiernan.