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Release Date: 2009 Cast: Peter Falk, Val Kilmer, Diane Ladd, Boo Boo Stewart, Blake Clark, Cloris Leachman, Bruce Dern, Hanna R. Hall, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rip Torn, Priscilla Barnes
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Indie, Black comedy American Cowslip is the title of an independent feature film by director Mark David. It revolves around heroin addict, Ethan Inglebrink, whose life is centered around his garden and his group of eccentric friends. American Cowslip will be David's third film, following his debut, Sweet Thing (1999), and his second, acclaimed feature, Intoxicating (2003). It is also the final film featuring Peter Falk, star of Columbo, who had since slipped into dementia after a 50-year career until his death.
Ethan Inglebrink (Ronnie Gene Blevens) is an agoraphobic heroin addict who lives in a homogeneous... MORE
American Cowslip is the title of an independent feature film by director Mark David. It revolves around heroin addict, Ethan Inglebrink, whose life is centered around his garden and his group of eccentric friends. American Cowslip will be David's third film, following his debut, Sweet Thing (1999), and his second, acclaimed feature, Intoxicating (2003). It is also the final film featuring Peter Falk, star of Columbo, who had since slipped into dementia after a 50-year career until his death.
Ethan Inglebrink (Ronnie Gene Blevens) is an agoraphobic heroin addict who lives in a homogeneous California town where nothing ever happens. A misfit, clad in a powder blue tux, he has convinced his poker buddies, and surrogate moms, Roe (Diane Ladd), Sandy (Cloris Leachman), and Lou Anne (Lin Shaye), that he is diabetic and his needles are for insulin, not heroin. His next-door neighbor is his landlord and former high school football coach Trevor O'Hart (Rip Torn), who wants nothing more than to kick Ethan out on the street. Complicating matters even further is that fact that Ethan's older brother Todd (Val Kilmer), the local sheriff, is convinced that his brother can only be saved by an act LESS
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