Cold Harbor is the bittersweet, haunting story of four brothers forced to deal with the suicide of their estranged father.

On the way to Cold Harbor

Just days after the suicide, the Broadhurst brothers, Roger (Mark Redfield), Rick (Richard M. Lopez), Tom (James Michael Caffery), and Bobby (Adam Raynen), set out for the seaside resort community of Cold Harbor, the town where the incident occurred. Their initial mission is to retrieve their father's personal effects from the police, and close his beach house for the winter. But the journey turns into a weekend of deep soul-searching and heated sibling rivalries.

Stopping for recyclables

Discoveries are made: the brothers find out their father left a suicide note.., and then they are told that the note must remain with the police as evidence. Rick, obsessed with having the last thing his father wrote, secretly hatches a plan to get the note.

Meanwhile, another discovery is made. In the storage shed, behind the beach house, the brothers find a small boat their father used on fishing trips with friends. Roger, guilty over the fact that he knew about the boat... and even more so because he has, on occasion, goiie fishing in it with his father, tries to make it seem like a 'little thing'. But to the other three, the boat represents all the things their father never gave them... love... attention... himself.

Richard Lopez and Mark Redfield

The discovery of the boat and Roger's knowledge of it creates friction among the brothers, particularly between Roger and Rick. Fuelled by a bout of heavy drinking , the tension builds until it explodes with Roger and Bobby walking out in the middle of the night to have a drunken "conversation" with their dead father.

Eventually, Rick's plan to steal the suicide note from the Cold Harbor police station comes out, and after an initial disagreement, the other three brothers decide to help him. But wanting is often better than having, and soon after Rick gets the note back, he realizes it means very little. Frustrated and angry, he turns his attention to his father's boat. To Rick, the boat not only represents his father, it IS his father, and therefore, to put his

The Final Confrontation

memory to rest (and the hurt within his heart), the boat must be destroyed.

Tom and Bobby, the youngest brothers, agree to destroy the boat, but Roger refuses to take part until he realizes at the last moment that for the sake of finality, the deed must be done as a cohesive group. It MUST be a shared experience.

COLD HARBOR is a tough, touching film that is full of gritty, honest moments and dark, humorous situations. It is about dealing with loss and family mythology and ultimately, burying the dead and getting on with life.