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Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thornton) is a man caught between two worlds: the one which existed before he was incarcerated, and the one into which he's released 22 years later. A yellowing newspaper photograph of 16-year-old convenience store clerk Abner Easley--the boy Manual killed in a robbery gone terribly wrong --has stared down at him from the wall of his cell for more than two decades. Manual feels that his life sentence is just and deserved, so when--much to his surprise and even somewhat against his will--he's released, the aimless boy is now a lost man. Floating through the barely familiar wintry landscape of his childhood neighborhood, Manual is like a ghost hungry for atonement, seemingly alienated from everything except for his terrible memories of the day which changed not only his life, but that of so many others as well. He glides through this strange new world a man apart, his wraithlike aspect and deeply formal, barely articulate manner guaranteed to insure solitude. Alm
