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A young sales clerk (Janine Gutierrez) is under appreciated at work and faces soul crushing challenges both professionally and emotionally in the big city. After a horrific event at work, she finds a revolver that changes her demeanor, giving her confidence and a way to even the odds in a misogynistic and cruel world. All the while she is unaware that the gun has had a dark journey of its own before finding itself in her hands. The solo debut feature by director Rae Red, The Girl and the Gun is the story of both the girl AND the gun in an intertwining tale that calls to mind similar crime films using a nonlinear storytelling format. Dripping with style, as well as featuring a powerfully devastating performance by the excellent and doe-eyed Gutierrez, this feature is an enthrallingly dark and gritty tale of the darkness that violence begets as well as how […]

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