“The Quarry” (** out of four) was a stagnant adaptation of Damon Galgut’s novel which changes the story setting from South Africa to Texas in which a small-town drifter (Shea Whigham) comes to town and assumes the identity of a local preacher who he accidentally killed but the hard-nosed sheriff (Michael Shannon) begins to investigate which dredges up problems with Mexican drug dealers and local border race-relations. You keep thinking something substantial or significant is going to happen but it never does as film simply plods on in a familiar landscape of Southern characters and cliches. Final half-hour (when film should be peaking) is a particular drag. Only Shannon’s scenes carry any real charge. Excellent music score by Heather McIntosh.