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Tangerine
Why this pick
Shares Red Rocket’s sun-blasted, scrappy American margins, restless comic momentum, and empathy for people improvising through economic precarity without sanding down their contradictions.
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MOVIE2021 2h 10m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Mikey Saber, a 39-year old “suitcase pimp”, lives off of women in the adult film industry. Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, Mikey decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop, making him fall back into his old habits.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Simon Rex
Mikey Saber
Suzanna Son
Strawberry