Sovereign 2025

Action Crime Drama Thriller

Studio	Briarcliff Entertainment
Release date	Jul 11, 2025
Country	US
Language	English
Runtime	100 min
Rated	R
Technical details	1.66:1

A father and son who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, find themselves in a standoff with a chief of police that sets off a manhunt.

A father and son who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, find themselves in a standoff with a chief of police that sets off a manhunt. (less)

Director: Christian Swegal
Writer: Christian Swegal
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Martha Plimpton, Nancy Travis, Thomas Mann

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Review

Review by Brian Orndorf, July 9, 2025

�Sovereign� is based on a true story, using the details of the 2010 West Memphis police shootings to inspire a study of American insanity as it spreads throughout the land and across generations. Writer/director Christian Swegal makes his feature-length helming debut with the endeavor, and he dips into a particularly dark tale of influence, examining the experience of a teenage boy who�s completely guided by his father�s radicalization, eventually challenged to understand his parent�s poisonous way of thinking as he begins to mature into an adult. �Sovereign� is a riveting picture that aims to ...read more...