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6.8/10 • 486

2021-12-102h 10m

DramaComedy

Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, 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.

Directors
Sean Baker
Writters
Chris Bergoch, Sean Baker
Editors
Sean Baker

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  1. Simon Rex

    Simon Rex

    Mikey

  2. Suzanna Son

    Suzanna Son

    Strawberry

  3. Bree Elrod

    Bree Elrod

    Lexi

  4. Ethan Darbone

    Ethan Darbone

    Lonnie

  5. Brenda Deiss

    Brenda Deiss

    Lil

  6. Judy Hill

    Judy Hill

    Leondria

  7. Brittney Rodriguez

    Brittney Rodriguez

    June

  8. Marlon Lambert

    Marlon Lambert

    Ernesto

  9. Vickie Pearce

    Vickie Pearce

    Manager #1

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CinemaSerf

Apr 4, 2022

6/10

Simon Rex is "Mikey", a down on his luck former porn star who has to return to live with his unwelcoming ex wife "Lexi" (Bree Elrod) and her mother "Lil" (Brenda Deiss). He sleeps on their couch, can't get a job, so ends up dealing dope and that's when he meets the young - and innocent - "Strawberry" (Suzanna Son) who is working at a doughnut shop. He turns on all his charms and soon enough they decide that they are going to elope with $3,000 of his ill-gotten gains. Well, that's their plan anyway, Of course, his ex; her mother and the local drugs queenpin don't quite approve. At times it's quite niftily paced with quite a few laughs, but I found the plot to be really quite thin and predictable as the thing went on. As an observational piece on the sort of trailer-park existence in rural Texas, it is probably quite authentic, but it just didn't do much for me. Over two hours was just far too long to sustain the theme, and aside from quite an engagingly quirky effort from Deiss, I felt this was another film that could happily wait for it's small screen release before watching it.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$1,100,000.00
Revenue
$2,200,000.00
Keywords
texasnarcissismrelationship problemsporn starestranged wifeselfishnessex-husband ex-wife relationshipreturn home2010sreturn to hometowntexas cityunlikeable protagonist