Plot
A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 4.5/10 (265 voted)
Director:Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Storyline
A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
I knew very little about this film when I went into it except that it
was inspired in some way by a David Sedaris essay. It surpassed my
expectations in a beautiful and lasting way. It's extraordinarily funny
- often in surprising ways. Like Sedaris' writing, things just happen,
and it's the protagonist's reactions that allow the audience to enter
this world of poignant meaninglessness. The characters and situations
can be so absurd at times that you wonder what kind of world this is,
how realistic or how exaggerated or how cinematic - but then you
realize that life can really be like that... Groff does a stellar job
playing with an open-minded and humorous pretentiousness. But what I
thought was most impressive was Kyle Patrick Alvarez's subtly-brilliant
treatment of both sexuality and religion, both of which are such
matter-of-fact gray areas in the film that they leave the viewer
wondering without ever asking him to. Great film - definitely catch it
when it comes out.
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