Sun Don't Shine (2012)

SUN DON'T SHINE  (2012)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Amy Seimetz
    Kate Lyn Shell, Kentucker Audley, Kit Gwin
Crystal and Leo are like your typical young working-class couple driving around Florida in a beat-up car. He works construction and builds cabinets on the side. She works in a bar and has a kid. The kid's with Crystal's mother while they're off on this road trip. It's hot and the two are on edge. They bicker and scrap and make up and make love. And, oh yeah, there's something else. Crystal's husband. He's dead. Crystal killed him. That's his body decomposing in the trunk. This has a little bit of "Badlands" going for it, but where Sissy Spacek was dreamy and detached, Kate Lyn Shell as Crystal is just plain nuts. With her ripe body and and a look that suggests both innocence and longing, she's just the kind of girl who might seem irresistible for a couple of hours if you met her in a bar, and your worst mistake ever to go with your hangover the next day. It's clear that Leo and Crystal honestly care for each other, even if they can't honestly show it. And it's clear that they're playing against a stacked deck. There are a couple of lessons to be learned from this. One, don't get involved with a woman who's crazy, no matter how cute and adorable she looks. And two, Florida's the wrong place to be driving around with a rotting corpse in the trunk of your car.