U.S. BLUES

Wisconsin: 1985. When Peter Van de Carr stumbles across a body outside a Grateful Dead show, he decides that solving the murder is his last chance to save any idealism left in the Deadhead scene. The only problems are: he has no idea how to conduct a murder investigation, the cops don’t want his help, and after a lifetime of drugs his mind is about as sharp as a Frisbee.

As Peter stumbles toward finding the killer of the little-known victim, an obsessive taper at the shows, he brings the rea...