{{About|the 2017 crime film|the color|Shades of red#Tomato}} {{Infobox film | name = Tomato Red | image = Tomato Red poster.jpg | caption = | director = Juanita Wilson | producer = Daniel Bekerman<br />James Flynn<br />Elizabeth Gill | screenplay = Juanita Wilson | based_on = {{Based on|''Tomato Red''|Daniel Woodrell}} | starring = Julia Garner | music = Thomas Haugh <br />Kevin Murphy <br />Stephen Shannon | cinematography = Piers McGrail | editing = Nathan Nugent | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2017|3|3}} | runtime = 112 minutes | country = Ireland <br />Canada | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Tomato Red''''' (also known as '''''Tomato Red: Blood Money''''') is a 2017 Irish-Canadian crime film written and directed by Juanita Wilson and starring Jake Weary and Julia Garner. It is based on the novel of the same name by Daniel Woodrell.<ref name=it/>
==Plot== Sammy is released from prison and moves into a trailer and gets a low level job. On Friday he goes to a bar, starts drinking, and befriends some locals. After spending the weekend with them smoking meth, they convince him to break into a wealthy family's house. The car that takes him to the house abandons him, as he drinks liquor and passes out.
He awakens to find himself tied to a chair, by brother and sister, Jammalee and Jason. They act as though it is their house and eventually untie him. When the police show up, all three flee. Jammalee invites Sammy to her trailer but he returns to his trailer instead. He confronts the people who abandoned him, beating a man and getting his belongings. He then decides to go to Jammalee's.
Sammy ends up living with Jammalee and Jason in their brother's room who is currently incarcerated. Their mother, Bev lives in a home next to theirs and works as a prostitute. Sammy befriends all three. Sammy and the two siblings continue to break into wealthy people's homes and blackmail them with information they find. This eventually leads to Jason being murdered. A local police officer pays them off with $5,500, instructing them to leave it alone. He claims people just wanted to beat Jason in order to send him a message but things got out of hand. Soon after, Jammalee leaves town alone and Sammy confronts and fights the townspeople.
==Cast== * Julia Garner as Jamalee Merridew * Jake Weary as Sammy * Anna Friel as Bev Merridew * Nick Roux as Jason Merridew
==Reception== <!--{{As of|September 2025}}-->{{RT prose|score=67 |count=6 |average=|4=|ref=yes|access-date=September 8, 2025}}
Paddy Kehoe of RTÉ.ie awarded the film four stars out of five, writing that it "is a strong, engaging film in which Irish director Juanita Wilson manipulates the dramatic elements to engender a keen sense of pathos and despair."<ref>{{cite web|last=Kehoe|first=Paddy|title=Tomato Red: Small town America through an Irish lens|date=6 March 2017|publisher=RTÉ.ie|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/movie-reviews/2017/0228/856083-tomato-reds-sinister-shades-of-colour/|accessdate=7 July 2018|archive-date=7 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707202108/https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/movie-reviews/2017/0228/856083-tomato-reds-sinister-shades-of-colour/|url-status=live}}</ref> Gwilyn Mumford of ''The Guardian'' gave the film two stars out of five, and wrote, "ultimately it's a case of all surface, no feeling."<ref>{{cite news|last=Mumford|first=Gwilyn|title=Tomato Red review – Ozarks lowlife drama a little too beautiful for its own good|date=24 February 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/24/tomato-red-review-ozarks-lowlife-drama-a-little-too-beautiful-for-its-own-good|accessdate=7 July 2018|archive-date=7 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707202239/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/24/tomato-red-review-ozarks-lowlife-drama-a-little-too-beautiful-for-its-own-good|url-status=live}}</ref>
Donald Clarke of ''The Irish Times'' awarded it three stars out of five, and wrote, "the picture is not in the same class as the two previous Woodrell adaptations, but it has unmistakable personality."<ref name=it>{{cite news|last=Clarke|first=Donald|title=Tomato Red review: A hard-boiled trailer-park tragedy|date=2 March 2017|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/tomato-red-review-a-hard-boiled-trailer-park-tragedy-1.2992408|accessdate=7 July 2018|archive-date=26 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426075706/http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/tomato-red-review-a-hard-boiled-trailer-park-tragedy-1.2992408|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|4927984}}
Category:2017 crime thriller films Category:English-language Canadian films Category:Canadian crime thriller films Category:Irish crime thriller films Category:Films based on American novels Category:2017 English-language films Category:2017 Canadian films Category:English-language crime thriller films Category:2017 films Category:Films set in the Ozarks Category:Films shot in Missouri Category:Films shot in British Columbia