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You ever wonder what you don’t know about your best friend?
This noir comedy is set deep in the heart of Texas during the hottest
summer on record. Bucky Click and Earl Boggs are two small town best
friends who work for the county in the carcass removal division. They
spend their days scooping up roadkill and dead farm animals left for
the buzzards. Bucky, a sensitive, soulful fellow is happily married
to Becky, the love of his life. Earl, a cynical aging bachelor, is
living fast while allowing Bucky to do most of the hard work. Their
lives are routine and uneventful until progress and technology finally
catches up with their county in the form of a mechanical marvel of
Carcass Removal Technology truck. The new truck, as
exciting as it may seem, is bad news. It means down-sizing and the
task of determining which man will need to go is left for them to
figure out. Earl, the older of the two, is not about to lay down 20
years of hard work to technology. He's determined to save both their
jobs. He Persuades Bucky to help him outsmart the higher-ups by moonlight
in the neighboring county where the new technology has already been
introduced. Earl's logic, flawed as it may be, is to reduce the number
of roadkill for the neighbor, making him look inefficient, therefore
getting the powers that be to rethink the purchase of the expensive
equipment. Bucky is not so sure about the plan, but has faith in his
best friend, and agrees to give the plan a try.
The late night pickups seem to be working, until, to their shock,
they discover the body of a hitchhiker they had picked up a few days
earlier, stashed in a well belonging to Rufus, the most hated man
in town. Bucky is
ready to call the Sheriff, but Earl refuses, fearing that a lynch
mob will descend on Rufus and put an end to him. He insists that they
hide the body in the county dead animal pit where no one will ever
find it. Bucky is confused and becomes suspicious of Earl's motives
in protecting Rufus. When no amount of reasoning brings Bucky around,
Earl reveals that Rufus, the despicable old man he's trying to protect,
is actually the father Bucky never knew. The decision is settled and
Bucky goes along with his friend's plan once again. They dispose of
the body in the festering pit and vow to take the night's secret to
their graves. Or so they think. Bucky can't reconcile the hideous
act and knows that the vile pit is no resting place for a human being,
The increasing guilt weighing on his heart and the nagging questions
about his own identity start to hover over him like a flock of buzzards.
Bucky begins to fall apart and finds himself torn between his love
for his wife, his allegiance to his best friend, and his own conscience.
When, against Earl's wishes, he starts to delve into his own hidden
past, Earl begins to transform in ways Bucky has never seen. Soon
they both find themselves entangled in a world of secrets and disturbing
past that are best
left unanswered. Ultimately, Broke Sky is a dark, quirky and unexpected
journey along the winding road toward an unusual redemption.
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