# Down in the Valley (2005)

An odd, mostly unsatisfying movie that gradually unravels as it progresses. The story of a strange cowboy and a definitely-underage teen girl is filled with so many curious details that the movie is content not to explore. What happened to the parents? Why do people pray to antennas? How did cops turn up so much information so quickly? What is going through the kid’s head in the third act that causes him to behave that way?

Instead of exploring these ideas, we have time for long shots of highways and to watch Edward Norton smush a donut hole into the center of a donut. That is its own kind of cinematic gold, but it doesn’t make for a coherent whole (hole?)