North Starr

North Starr is a 2008 film directed by Matthew Stanton.

It was scheduled to compete in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Plot
A young African American man living in Houston witnesses his best friend's brutal murder, then flees to the small, racially intolerant, backwater town of Trublin.

Cast

 * Jerome Hawkins as Demetrious
 * Matthew Stanton as Darring Clements
 * Chris Sullivan as Sprit
 * Isaac Lamb as T.J.
 * Zack Johnson as Justin
 * Wayne Campbell as Wayne

Reception
Justin Chang of Variety described the movie as "a messy Texas stew of racial tension, personal liberation and murder-in-retrospect detective story." He praised the likable characters but criticized the "self-indulgent" first-time director's work. James Greenberg of The Hollywood Reporter called it "long on passion and somewhat lacking in execution," stressing the lack of experience on the part of the producer-director-writer-actor Matthew Stanton.