1. What did Jacob Wilson and his friends do during the football match?
PART ONE
What did Jacob Wilson and his friends do during the football match?
What is Jacob’s hobby?
Why did Hollis take away Jacob’s motorbike?
Why was Jacob emotionally attached to his motorbike?
How was Jacob punished for having vandalized a car with his friends?
Why did Hollis put a bunch of flowers next to a road?
What is Hollis’s job?
Who was the woman Jacob talked to in the car?
How does the film show that Hollis does not devote much time to look after Jacob and Wes?
Why did Jacob and his friends make Wes burn some wooden crates at might?

2. Who was the woman who came to Hollis’s house?
PART ONE
Who was the woman who came to Hollis’s house?
Why did the CPS (Child Protective Services) social worker decide to place Wes in Pam’s care?
Why did Holiss’s neighbour call the police?
Under what conditions did the judge agree for Holiss to keep custody of Jacob?
What did Holiss explain to Wes about his situation with Pam?
What did Wes tell Jacob on the phone?

3. What did Jacob and his friends discuss at the motorbike shop?
PART TWO
What did Jacob and his friends discuss at the motorbike shop?
Why didn’t Pam want Jacob to see Wes?
Why did Holiss build a house in Galveston?
Why was Wes unhappy to have to stay at Pam’s house?
Who did Holiss miss an appointment with?
Why didn’t Holiss want his friends to show Jacob how to handle a rifle?
Why did Holiss, Pam and Jacob go and watch a football game?
When did Holiss show some emotion for the first time?
Why was there a Foreclosure / For sale sign in front of Holiss’s house in Galveston?
Why did a fight break out between Lance and Nathan?
What changes occurred in Holiss’s household?
Why did Pam want to move to Houston?

4. Why did Holiss accuse Pam of wanting to take his sons away from him?
PART TWO
Why did Holiss accuse Pam of wanting to take his sons away from him?

5. What decision did the judge take concerning Wes’s custody?
PART THREE
What decision did the judge take concerning Wes’s custody?
Why did Jacob visit Wes at his school?
Why did Jacob run off course during the motorbike race?
Why was Jacob aggressive with his father at the pizza place?
What did Jacob see when he went to Pam’s house?
What did the probation centre tell Holiss about Jacob?
Why did Jacob and his friends go to Pam’s house at night?
Why did Pam hit one of Jacob’s friend with a baseball bat?
Why did Jacob shoot at Lance?
Where did Jacob intend to take his brother Wes?

6. Aaron Paul as Hollis Wilson. Juliette Lewis as Pam
Aaron Paul as Hollis Wilson Juliette Lewis as Pam Deke Garner as Wes Wilson Josh Wiggins as Jacob Wilson

7. Jacob and Wes live with their father Hollis
Jacob and Wes live with their father Hollis. Their mother died in a road accident. At the beginning of the story, Jacob and his friends smash the car of a rival football team. Subsequently, Jacob has to go to juvenile detention. His hobby is motor biking but Hollis takes his bike away as a form of punishment. Two representatives of the Child Protective Services visit Holiss’s house and after seeing the mess and noticing the fact that Holiss drinks too much, they decide to put Wes in Pam’s care – Pam is Holiss’s sister-in-law. This makes Jacob very sad. It also makes him angry with his father because he thinks that he is responsible for the loss of his custody of Wes. During a motor bike race Jacon runs off course in a curve and arrives last. Pam tells Holiss that she plans to move to Houston because she

8. found a new job there and she plans to take Wes with her
found a new job there and she plans to take Wes with her. Jacob and his friends go to Pam’s house to take Wes away but they are attacked by Pam with a baseball bat because she thought they were thieves who broke in. Jacob then wounds Lance with a rifle because he attacked one of his friends. Jacob and Wes take the ferry but the police are waiting for them on the mainland.