''Falcon Song'' is a 2014

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film written and directed by Jason Corgan Brown. It stars

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, and

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. The 1980s style film explores themes of land conservation and soul searching through a storybook world of quirky characters with touches of

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Plot

A guitar playing drifter (

) helps a rancher's granddaughter (

) find her true calling. They soon find themselves in the middle of a land war instigated by Cap Davenport (

Cast

as Sarah Lou *

as Syd *

as Caspian *

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as Jabez * Hart Turner as Randy *

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as "Monster" * Jeter Rhodes as Frank

Release

''Falcon Song''

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at the 2014

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on 31 January. The film's US theatrical release began in Los Angeles on March 21, 2014. It subsequently screened across America at classic movie houses as well as Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. On May 23, 2014 Falcon Song was released in North America on major Cable On Demand and Internet VOD platforms including AT&T U-Verse, Verizon, Comcast, Cox, Charter, iTunes, Vudu, Xbox Live, and PlayStation Network.

Reception

''Falcon Song'' received mostly positive reviews when it was initially released in 2014. Ernest Hardy of LA Weekly wrote that Falcon Song is "modest, charming, and relatively subversive in the context of contemporary American film." and that the movie is "mercifully free of easy irony". Sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times stated that "The Director achieves a desired retro aesthetic" and that "The story's wholesomeness could have tipped into bizarro

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dreamland, but it remains grounded, more or less." Ethan Stewart of The Santa Barbara Independent wrote that the film is "A tongue-in-cheek celebration of 1980s’ cinema, Jason Brown’s Falcon Song legitimately makes you feel like you have travelled through time. The film goes retro with everything from production techniques and the soundtrack to its storyline…". In Film Threat's review by Mark Bell, the film is highlighted as "a throwback to a less cynical age of cinema".

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