title: North Starr
text: # North Starr
  
  North Starr is a 2008 film directed by Matthew Stanton.
  
  It was scheduled to compete in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
  
  ## Plot
  
  A young African American man living in Houston witnesses his best friend's brutal murder, then flees to the small, racially intolerant, backwater town of Trublin.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Jerome Hawkins as Demetrious
  * Matthew Stanton as Darring Clements
  * Chris Sullivan as Sprit
  * Isaac Lamb as T.J.
  * Zack Johnson as Justin
  * Wayne Campbell as Wayne
  
  ## Reception
  
  Justin Chang of Variety described the movie as "a messy Texas stew of racial tension, personal liberation and murder-in-retrospect detective story." He praised the likable characters but criticized the "self-indulgent" first-time director's work. James Greenberg of The Hollywood Reporter called it "long on passion and somewhat lacking in execution," stressing the lack of experience on the part of the producer-director-writer-actor Matthew Stanton.
  
  