America Ferrera is a long way from the territory of hit comedy television series Ugly Betty in this latest cinematic venture. The Dry Land, which Ferrara was producer on and stars in, dramatises the impact of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, as a working class soldier, James, returns to his family after serving in Iraq. The setting is ordinary, working class, small town Texas. The dialogue could almost have been cut and paste from similar films, such is its ordinariness. James lives in a trailer, finds work in his father-in-law’s slaughterhouse, and has a sick mother.