Palm Trees and Power Lines: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny, Jonathan Tucker on Their Cautionary Tale

One of the best films I saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Palm Trees and Power Lines. Directed by Jamie Dack, and written by Dack and Audrey Findlay, the power film is about a teen girl (played brilliantly by first-time actor Lily McInerny) and her relationship with a man twice her age (Jonathan Tucker). Without getting into the specifics of the story, the film takes an unvarnished and realistic look at how a lonely teenager can be drawn into an inappropriate relationship. One of the many reasons why I found Palm Trees and Power Lines to be such a powerful film is that Dack and Findlay didn’t pull any punches with the script. They never try and Hollywoodize the story and what happens. Instead, they depict on screen what, unfortunately, many women have gone through, and how someone can be pulled into walking down a dark path without realizing they left the main road. The film also stars Gretchen Mol and Auden Thornton. Shortly before Jamie Dack won the U.S. Dramatic Sundance Jury Awar