Red Rocket
Director Sean Baker and actress Brittney Rodriguez will join us for a virtual, post-film Q&A following Sunday, December 26's 6:45pm screening.
The audacious new film from writer- director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny, humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber(Rex) decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, TX, 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. He falls right back into his old habits.
"Red Rocket feels hand-tooled, made from the ground up, enterprisingly cast and untampered with by executives or marketing types. It feels as creatively pure as a novel by a kid just out of college. May it stay that way for Baker as long as he wants it to." - Todd McCarthy, Deadline
