In the thriller Turn the River, Famke Janssen (Best Actress, Hamptons Film Festival) stars as Kailey, a small town pool hustler in upstate New York. She ekes out a living playing poker, periodically driving into Manhattan to check up on her mentor, Quinn (Rip Torn), who runs Quinn's, a hardcore pool hall. Kailey (Janssen) is determined to raise $50,000 to wrest her son Gulley (Jaymie Dornan), who she was forced to give up at birth, from the toxic clutches of her alcoholic ex-husband David (Matt Ross) and his domineering mother (Lois Smith) and move to Canada for a better life. In order to win the money, Kailey must score a match with the best player at Quinn's, Duncan (John Juback). With this as her only hope for a future with her son, Kailey starts to play, and the stakes have never been higher.
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