Omaha is a small, delicate film marked by few momentous narrative incidents. Yet Cole Webley’s directorial debut has something lacking from so many higher-profile and bigger-budgeted efforts, including its compatriots at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: an authentic feel for the texture,

Kicking off the Sundance Film Festival dramatic competition this year is Omaha, an increasingly bleak road trip with a recently widowed father, his two kids and their dog. Set against the 2008 financial crisis,