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Devil’s Peak is a slice of small-town Americana headlined by Robin Wright (Wonder Wonder 1984), Billy Bob Thornton (The Gray Man), and Jackie Earle Harley (Alita: Battle Angel), one that delves into the lives of one family ruled over by a meth-peddling kingpin patriarch.
Adapted by Robert Knott from the novel Where All Light Tends to Go, it charts the downward trajectory of Jacob McNeeley (Hopper Penn), as he is torn between love and family loyalties. This low-key drama is sparse on dialogue, but goes large on atmospherics, as the brooding presence of North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains cast an imposing shadow.
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