Entertainment Weekly has the first look of Kate Winslet and Josh Browling on upcoming Labor Day

The guy who is bleeding from his side needs help. But he’s not asking – he’s telling.

That’s the setup for the simmering drama Labor Day, starring Josh Brolin as an escaped convict who takes shelter with the mentally fragile, reclusive single-mom Adele (Kate Winslet) and her almost-teenage son (Changling’s Gattlin Griffith) over the course of one long late-summer holiday weekend in the mid-1980s.

Whether they are helpers or hostages is a question even in their own minds. Brolin’s Frank Chambers displays a tenderness toward the frightened mother and son, but the relentless news reports on TV describe him as dangerous — and he isn’t exactly forthcoming about what landed him in prison in the first place.

Labor Day opens in theaters Dec. 25.