Two lacrosse stars from feuding families discover honor isn't what their parents sold them.
"The Attackman" refers to the players on a Lacrosse team positioned to score the most points in this aggressive sport. And Lacrosse means everything to Jordan Simms and Chris Wheatley, two high-school seniors from different religious traditions who come to realize, as a life-changing game nears, that their parents' values aren't the same as their own.
Acting
Bell and Combs bring heavyweight presence to a short.
Direction
Straus packs a feature's worth of stakes into 17 minutes.
Writing
Dialogue that trusts silence and subtext over exposition.
Director
Topher Straus
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