'Buried In Barstow': Angie Harmon's new lifelong movie will have a sequel
In Buried in Barstow, Hazel leads a seemingly quiet life in Barstow, California, where she owns a barbecue restaurant and is raising her daughter Joy (Lauren Richards). She is a far cry from her previous life in Las Vegas, where she was a heroin-addicted teenager plucked off the streets and turned into a calculating hit man.
When she became pregnant with her daughter, Hazel left her violent life behind. But now, nearly two decades later, her past has caught up with her. Her old boss, played by her. Rizzoli and Isles co-star Bruce McGill calls her back to Las Vegas to do one more job. Meanwhile, back in Barstow, he goes to extreme measures to protect Joy from a bad boyfriend while she becomes involved with a stranger named Elliot (Kristoffer Polaha) who shows up in town under mysterious circumstances.
The film ends on a serious cliffhanger. Hazel finds out that Elliot worked for her old boss, whom she met in prison. But before she can confront him, she interrupts an ongoing kidnapping and is shot outside her restaurant. Meanwhile, her daughter's abusive boyfriend, Travis (Timothy Granaderos), turns out not to be dead after all. He returns to Barstow and Joy seems eager to rekindle her relationship.
Buried in Barstow concludes with a "to be continued..." Fortunately, viewers need not worry about never seeing the next chapter of Hazel's story. Lifetime has said that the film is the first in a planned series, and Harmon has confirmed that work has already begun on the follow-up film. She's hoping there could be a half dozen movies or more with her hitman-turned-waitress character.
"We don't have an exact number," Harmon told Smashing Interviews magazine. “I would like there to be six to eight, and hopefully we can get there. I saw it more as a series. But I appreciate the vision that Tom [Evans, the movie's screenwriter] has for it as two-hour movie segments. But I'm not sure. Maybe if people still like them, we'll keep making them. I wish. We start filming the next one in early June.”
