E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife and her lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can poison a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.
Kris Kristofferson
as E. F. Bloodworth
Val Kilmer
as Warren Bloodworth
Hilary Duff
as Raven Lee Halfacre
Reece Thompson
as Fleming Bloodworth
Dwight Yoakam
as Boyd Bloodworth
Frances Conroy
as Julia Bloodworth
W. Earl Brown
as Brady Bloodworth
Hilarie Burton
as Hazel
Sheila Kelley
as Louise Halfacre
Barry Corbin
as Itchy
Brent Briscoe
as Coble
Claudia Church
as Patricia Bloodworth
