THE BEND IN THE RIVER

In the small, western Tennessee city of Ellenburg, in the late Sixties, the students of Barrington High School have the long-standing and dismal reputation of being the loser school on the poorer side of town. Enter new teacher Leonard Haskell-an ex-Army drill instructor and combat veteran-who will utilize his considerable motivational skills in an attempt to reverse that image, no matter how ingrained in the student body s psyche. Along with their fellow seniors, trying to cope with Mr. Haskell, and against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, drugs, civil rights and the counter culture, three friends-Greg, Dewey and Warren, face the confusion and excitement of this period of upheaval and heroism, in the final months before Americans landed on the moon._,