Dinner in America

USA 2020, 106 minutes
Dir. Adam Rehmeier
English
Rating: [R16] Cruelty, drug use, sexual material & offensive language
Genres: Comedy / Independent

Feat. Kyle Gallner, Emily Skeggs, Brittany Sheets, Pat Healy, Griffin Gluck, Lea Thompson

“Emily Skegg's suburban nerd and Kyle Gallner's runaway rocker work a treat in this abrasively funny 90s throwback.”~The Guardian

Aroview: Kyle Gallner and Emily Skeggs lend plenty of charisma to this stroppy-sweet black comedy as an on-the-lam punk rocker and an awkward young woman who is secretly obsessed with his band.

Think "Welcome to the Dollhouse" meets "Napoleon Dynamite", it's a brazen and often hilarious portrait of (ironic) toxic masculinity that gives way to a sweet love story between two misfits. It might play it all straight from the American indie movie playbook, but has an absolute blast while doing so.

NZ International Film Festival 2020