A Single Shot is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by David M. Rosenthal and written by Matthew F. Jones, based on his own novel of the same name.

It stars Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Ted Levine, Kelly Reilly and Jason Isaacs.

While illegally stalking a deer with a shotgun on Nature Conservancy land, he accidentally shoots and kills a young woman.

John visits his son at his wife's apartment and interrupts the babysitter having sex with a recently released convict who has returned home.

In another incident a rock wrapped in a note threatening his family is thrown through the trailer window.

The stranger from outside the diner arrives at the hotel room and asks the ex-con if he's "gotten the money back".

The stranger tells him to go get it, but first cuts off John's right index finger and thumb, to be sure he can't use a weapon.

He takes the girl to town and returns to the trailer and a shed outside, which contains a freezer in which he has hidden the dead woman's body.

The website's consensus reads: "It has a bleak sense of atmosphere and a terrific performance by Sam Rockwell, but A Single Shot is undercut by its predictable story and slow pace.

One of the special things about the soundtrack is that the shorter cues have been organized into movements, thus creating a program that sounds very much like a concert piece.