Do you think I m weird? Arrow Video in the UK has released a trailer for the indie comedy titled
Dinner in America, already being hailed as an instant cult classic. This premiered at last year s Sundance Film Festival, and played tons of other fests including the Dublin, Neuchâtel, Fantasia, Nightstream, Stockholm, Tallinn Black Nights, and Calgary Underground. An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey through America s decaying Midwestern suburbs. Set to the beat of brilliant original songs,
Dinner in America is an empowering wild ride through the places and people of suburbia in all their peculiar and chaotic forms.
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âIs weird cool?â âIn your case, no.â This pert exchange summarises the style of writer-director Adam Rehmeierâs indie dramedy, with two very good lead performers whose unexpected chemistry gradually makes this film likable. Itâs about an angry punk singer with a pyromania fetish and a lonely and nerdy young woman with ADHD who is his biggest fan.
Kyle Gallner plays John Q Public (real name: Simon), the lead singer of a band called Psy Ops who performs anonymously in a balaclava; off-stage, he has a vocal-fry badass voice, like Ray Liotta in GoodFellas. Simon is experiencing furious musical differences with the rest of the band and is making money through selling weed and taking part in big pharma medical experiments. Emily Skeggs is excellent as quirky, dreamy Patty, who takes indistinct Polaroids of herself masturbating to his music in her childhood bedroom and sends them to him via the mailbox address on the
1 June 2021 (UK digital)
In a Midwestern suburb, aggro punk rocker Simon (Kyle Gallner), who finances his home music album recordings as a guinea pig for medical trials, needs to find a place to lay low following a close call with the police. After a chance encounter with the socially awkward Patty (Emily Skeggs), he seeks refuge at her house, with her conservatively religious family. As the pair get to know one another, they discover a shared passion for music, and together with a 4-track recorder, they create a song.
Written, directed, and edited by Adam Rehmeier, Dinner in America (2020) is produced by Ben Stiller and Ross Putman. The filmmaker’s previous credits include his feature debut, the horror film