Deep
Powder is a true-life
drama set in 1982 about
Danny (Shiloh Fernandez),
a ski-lift operator who is
saving up to go to college
when he meets Natasha
(Haley Bennett), a rich
girl who is with her
boarding school friends
when she loses her purse
on the lift. She's not
that fussed about it, but
Danny finds it to give
back to her which leads
her to invite him to a
party her friends are
having. It turns out the
party is for a club that
gets cocaine for other
rich kids from Ecuador and
Natasha has won the
privilege to go and get
the cocaine. Even though
Danny doesn't enter the
party, but leave a record
for her to listen to and
from there, their
relationship develops.
Natasha decides to take
Danny with her to get the
cocaine and give him the
money she is getting for
doing so to help with his
college fund. In Ecuador,
they get the cocaine with
only a small hiccup, but
it's when they get back
that things go very bad
for Danny and Natasha.
An OK
film that never really
stretches itself beyond
the usual drug trafficking
motifs or perils of blind
love and the ending is a
bit much even if it's
based on a true story.
But, the movie is fairly
watchable with likeable
leads, but this is hardly
a memorable movie.
