Watch The Slaughter Rule

David Morse and Ryan Gosling star in this independent film and coming of age drama. High school senior Roy Chutney, played by Gosling, takes a devastating emotional blow from learning that his father has killed himself and is shortly thereafter cut from the high school football team. Local Gideon Ferguson, played by Morse, takes notice of young Roy and invites him to play on his six man football team instead. When rumors begin to spread, however, Roy begins to wonder about Gideon's true intentions towards him.