Pearl’s Jam

In Brief: Hank Bones' second film is a little more cinematically adventurous than The Quitters (2014), but the content is also a good deal less sophisticated. That's more of a comment than a complaint, because nothing about Pearl's Jam suggests it was ever intended to be anything other than a fun little movie made by a group of friends, though it also provides a showcase for the Jon Henrys' (Hank Bones, Jon Corbin, Kevin Kehrberg, Lyndsay Pruett, Henry Westmoreland, Russ Wilson) music. The loose — but interestingly tied together — plot concerns Russ (Russ Wilson) finding the world's rarest record (the "Pearl's Jam" of the title) and trying to cash in on it. There's also a subplot about the world's oldest rapper (Earl Sachais), who doesn't know he's a rapper. It's just something that happens whenever he is accosted by a rap beat. Overall, it's just a good-natured little homegrown production that makes use of Asheville as a setting (it even doubles — none too convincingly — as Washington, D.C., at one point) and local talent.