Michael and Mark Polish (Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork, The Astronaut Farmer) return with a new film titled Manure, which is set to premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Téa Leoni, Billy Bob Thornton, Kyle MacLachlan star in a comic tale centered on manure salesmen in the early 1960s. The plot synopsis follows:

“When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose’s Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged daughter Rosemary (Leoni), a high-class- cosmetics salesgirl, who steps in to take control. She is not sure she has a nose for the family business, but she is determined to make foul into profit. Little does she know that a ruthless, slick-talking fertilizer rep is plotting a takeover. Whether she likes it or not, she must trust her top salesman (Thornton) to devise a plan to regain Rose’s rightful position on top of the heap.”

The film’s tagline is “Sometimes you have to step in it to learn how to avoid it.” Even when I haven’t always loved the stories (Astronaut Farmer), I’ve very much enjoyed the look and tone of the Polish Brothers past film efforts. The early production photos show a beautiful unsaturated classic sepia golden look.

The early teaser trailer is short and sweet, and lack’s the golden look seen in the production photos. I’m guessing the trailer was just for promotional purposes. Sundance programer John Cooper calls the film “a wholly original, decidedly irreverent, yet enchantingly classic comic adventure from the 1960s.”