ACCOUNTANT,THE

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• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Comedy, Short
• Plot: In the deep South, an eccentric accountant (Ray McKinnon) employs his remarkable math skills to help the O'Dell family escape their debts and save their troubled farm, concocting dubious schemes, exposing dark conspiracies and drinking loads of beer along the way. Winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, this quirky comedy also stars Eddie King, Walton Goggins and Gary Richardson. ; ; This Academy Award Winning ® film tells the story of a mysterious accountant whose remarkable mathematical skills just might save the O'Dell family farm. Armed with a keen ability to add, an unquenchable thirst for bottled beer, and a stack of receipts, the accountant takes the O'Dell brothers on a strange journey that reveals the plight of America's family farms. A cult classic with many passionate supporters, the film was never released before now, and resonates well during these hard economic times. Stars writer/director Ray McKinnon (O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU / HBO's DEADWOOD) and Walton Goggins (THE SHIELD).; ; Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, THE ACCOUNTANT stars DEADWOOD's Ray McKinnon (who also writes and directs) as a hard-living number-cruncher who arrives just in time to save a flailing family farm.
• Cast: Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Eddie King, Gary Richardson, Nick Sakai, Jolly Dale, Blake B. Jackson, Joan Sobel, Rusty Andrews, Jim Brookshire, Jeff M. Sliney, Linda Di Franco, Duff Dugan
• Director: Ray McKinnon
• Runtime: 0:38
• Company: Ginny Mule Pictures
• Media Format: Movie