McNairy plays a violent prisoner, and Seyfried is the teacher who thinks he can save her, in Nelson's strongest movie since "The Grey Zone."
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Courtesy of TIFF Tim Blake Nelson’s “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd” is a gripping, wrenching, dark-as-midnight crime drama that taps into a phenomenon many might view as an underground secret (or maybe they just don’t know enough about it): the relationship that develops, more often than you’d think, between incarcerated violent criminals and civilians who fall in love with them. Often, it starts with an exchange of letters. But in “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” Karen (Amanda Seyfried), a teacher who’s looking for an escape from her oppressive marriage and her dead-end life, finds work leading a creative-writing class at a maximum-security prison in Oklahoma.
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