August 12, 2025 - 8:15pm
In Owen Kline’s hilariously dark, pleasantly unexpected coming-of-age feature, a promising 17-year-old cartoonist abandons school and his spoiled suburban lifestyle to live as a cartoonist on the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey, and among the city’s fringe figures to whom he willingly gravitates. Produced by the Safdie brothers and shot on 16mm by Sean Price Williams (along with Hunter Zimny), Kline’s feature debut draws surprising connections between the lo-fi traditions of American independent cinema and the vividly observed marginalia of underground cartoons, but its distinctive, cringe-inducing humor and genuine affection for its characters establish a world belonging completely to the filmmaker.
