Mill Creek Entertainment Selects Aug. 23 For The DVD Debut Of Director Brent Christy's County Line: All In

You find hidden treasures now and then that make the direct-to-video and indie filmmaking world worthwhile.   Sure, there are plenty of “15-minute” movies, you know them, 15-minutes in (or sometimes less) and you get the urge to start screaming.   Who made this crap?   And out you go.

Back in May of 2018 an indie film treasure surfaced on DVD titled County Line, directed by Shea Sizemore and starring Tom Wopat as a grizzled ex-lawman who takes matters into his own hands when his protégé (played by Jeff Fahey) is murdered.

So well-received was this out-of-the-blue indie that two sequels were ordered, with the film’s cinematographer, Brent Christy (The Legend of 5 Mile Cave, The Warrant, Blue Ridge), moving up to the director’s chair and Tom Wopat (as Luke Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard series, plus such films as Django Unchained, Jonah Hex, Fair Haven, etc.) returning as the no-nonsense Sheriff Alden Rockwell.

News arrived this past week that Mill Creek Entertainment has captured the home entertainment packaged media distribution rights to the sequel, County Line: All In, which will be making its DVD debut on Aug. 23.

This time out there’s a whodunit mystery, with a none-too-popular lawyer, Garret Barlow (Travis Smothers) — who just happens to work for the local heavy — who is found dead on the Maksville/York county line.   Murdered, but who has jurisdiction?   Sheriff Rockwell, or that uppity city-slicker newcomer, Sheriff Jo Porter (Kelsey Crane — Lake Dead, Scream of the Bikini, Lucid, Cardinal Matter)?

The water-and-oil pairing forces them to combine their resorces to solve the case, which is not as clear cut as one might suspect.   Indeed, the nicely placed red herrings keep you guessing right up until the explosive third act.

Also returning in Country Line: All In are Abbi Butler (The Pea Shooter, The Odds, Autumn) as Rockwell’s combat-weary daughter, Ember, and Patricia Richardson as Maddie Hall, who runs the local diner (perhaps best known as the four-time Emmy nominee for her role as Jill Taylor in the Home Improvement sitcom, plus such films as Ulee’s Gold, In Country, Viva Las Nowhere).

Mark it down, the mystery, the suspense and thrills all await on DVD from Mill Creek Entertainment on Aug. 23 with the release of County Line: All In.