A Flash of Green

3/14/2026

**_Local politics & drama in a rural Florida town on the southwest coast, 1961_** Ed Harris stars as a brooding reporter who is compromised by a seemingly necessary deal made with an ambitious county commissioner (Richard Jordan); meanwhile he longs for a widowed friend (Blair Brown). On the surface, the story’s about saving an unspoiled bay from an arrogant developer, but it’s really about the protagonist’s day-to-day struggles with his ailing wife, his conscience and, in general, the negatives of living in a ‘fallen’ world. The idea is that a person can be complicated enough to hold two opposing views, but there’s a problem if lust for lucre turns you into an unfaithful two-faced. The director is from Florida and well captures the moist heat of the southern Florida coast, as wel