The centerpiece screening from this year's MIFF, here’s a Maine film so genuine it can’t have been shot elsewhere—and it wasn’t. In The Ghost Trap, based on a coastal-set novel by K. Stephens, young lobsterman Jamie Eugley has a beautiful life, lobstering on the coast…until he doesn’t. His loving girlfriend Anja suffers a debilitating head injury and a rival lobstering crew is becoming increasingly threatening. Jamie’s temptation to steer in the wrong direction is clear in this wide open landscape—from playing as dirty as his rivals to giving in to the interest of another woman, the alluringly named Happy. Can he keep to the wide and wavy yet straight and narrow? Gorgeously shot, mostly on Maine’s stunning seawaters, The Ghost Trap is the real deal.

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