Official THE DRIFTLESS AREA Trailer Experience the official THE DRIFTLESS AREA trailer! The film, directed by Zachary Sluser, stars Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel, John Hawkes, Ciarán Hinds, Aubrey Plaza, Alia Shawkat, and Frank Langella. THE DRIFTLESS AREA will be released in theaters on April 26. Pierre Hunter (Anton Yelchin), a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents’ death. When he falls for the enigmatic Stella (Zooey Deschanel), Pierre is unknowingly pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that involves a duffel bag full of cash, a haphazard yet determined criminal (John Hawkes), and a mystery that will determine all of their fates. With Alia Shawkat, Frank Langella, Aubrey Plaza, and Ciarán Hinds. Zachary Sluser’s film, based on the novel by Tom Drury, is a contemporary fable about the ways we struggle to control time and fate in a possibly predetermined universe.