A SINGLE SHOT trailer featuring Sam Rockwell

First trailer for A Single Shot

A trailer for the somber-looking A Single Shot has surfaced. The film features Sam Rockwell as hunter John Moon and looks like a decent drama-from-novel adaptation across the board.

Check out the trailer and a brief synopsis of the original novel after the jump.

A Single Shot is adapted from the book of the same name by author Matthew F. Jones. 

Amazon describes Jones’ novel and a little regarding what we’ll get from the film:

After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land, hears a rustle in the brush, and fires a single fateful shot.

Following the bloody trail, he comes upon a shocking scene: an illegal, deep woods campground filled with drugs, bundles of cash and the body of a dead young woman, killed by Moon’s stray bullet.

Faced with an ultimate dilemma, Moon has to make a choice: does he take the money and ignore his responsibility for the girl’s death? Or confess?

But before he has a chance to decide, Moon finds himself on the run, pursued by those who think the money is theirs. Men who don’t care about right and wrong and who want only one thing from John Moon: his body, face down in a ditch.

A Single Shot was directed by David M. Rosenthal and also stars indie-familiars William H. Macy, Jeffrey Wright, Melissa Leo, and Ted Levine.

The film looks like it’s already been released in Germany, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see it in theaters sometime soon stateside. Keep your eyes open if you’re interested in checking it out!