2026 Sarasota Film Festival
Normal
Screenings
- 📅
Friday, April 17 at 6:30 PM EDT
Ends 8:30 PM EDT
📍New College of Florida/Sainer Pavilion
5313 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL, 34243
About this film
For Sheriff Ulysses (Bob Odenkirk), his provisional posting to the quaint snowy town of Normal, Minnesota was meant to be a welcome respite from both his marital woes and recent moral injuries in the line of duty. But when a botched bank robbery interrupts the municipality’s tranquil pace, a dark secret is inadvertently exposed, and Ulysses soon discovers that the town is anything but its namesake. Director Ben Wheatley quietly (normally?) builds up the tension, and before you know it all heck breaks loose, revealing a Pandora's Box of conspiracies and explsions. Told with some seriously dark humor and subtlety in the least expected places, Normal is both an unrelenting action flick and a commentary on small town social norms.
Credits
- Director
- Ben Wheatley
- Producer
- Marc Provissiero, Bob Odenkirk, Derek Kolstad
- Executive Producer
- Ellen Rutter, Rhonda Baker, Carrie Wilkins, Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty, Elan Gale, Josh Adler, Glenn D. Feig, Matthew Anderson, Jared Underwood, Andrew C. Robinson
- Screenwriter
- Derek Kolstad
- Cinematographer
- Armando Salas
- Editor
- Jonathan Amos
- Composer
- Harry Gregson-Williams, Ryder McNair
- Music
- Jillian Ennis
- Sound Design
- Martin Pavey
- Production Design
- Jean-Andre Carriere
- Cast
- Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, Lena Headey

