The Frontier (2015 film)

The film stars Jocelin Donahue, Kelly Lynch, Jim Beaver, Izabella Miko, Jamie Harris, Liam Aiken, and A. J. Bowen.

Donahue plays a drifter on the run who stops at a motel, only to find that several people there may be involved in a local heist.

In the morning, she hides a personalized money clip and meets the owner, Luanne, who gives Laine a free meal.

A local police officer, Gault, explains a brutal murder has occurred in nearby Flagstaff while he changes Laine's flat tire.

When Gloria becomes flustered and announces her necklace has been stolen, the other guests quickly attempt to calm her before Gault intervenes.

That night, Flynn and Gloria get drunk to celebrate their coming fortune, and Laine attempts to slip sedatives into their drinks.

Lee returns to the diner and becomes enraged when he sees Flynn, Gloria, and Eddie partying noisily.

Luanne returns to the diner and objects, but Lee only stops when Laine admits to killing a man in Flagstaff who had attempted to rape her.

She retrieves the hidden money clip, which Lee recognizes as belonging to the murder victim, a prominent politician.

Convinced she can not go to the police, Lee allows her to live, and Luanne talks him into giving Laine a small cut of the heist.

[4] Scott Foundas of Variety called it an "appreciably moody, but dramatically stilted" film whose pastiche falls too often on the side of kitsch.