Stars: Emily Skeggs, Kyle Gallner, Lea Thompson, Brian Andrus, Shelby Alayne Antel, Sophie Bolen, Gary Brunner, Nick Chinlund, Kristin Condon, Lena Drake | Written and Directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier
Written and directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier (The Bunny Game), Dinner in America is the tale of Patty (Emily Skeggs) and Simon (Kyle Gallner), the latter of whom is a punk rocker, and the former, a female fan obsessed with his band. The two, against all odds and types, fall in love, and drift around the suburbs of the midwest. It’s a love story, but it’s also full of punk-rock indie sensibilities, with an edge that makes it feel unpredictable but still charming.
I was intrigued both by the story itself and the main cast, with Gallner, whom I am familiar with from his roles in the likes of American Sniper and Dear White People, to Skeggs herself, and...
Written and directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier (The Bunny Game), Dinner in America is the tale of Patty (Emily Skeggs) and Simon (Kyle Gallner), the latter of whom is a punk rocker, and the former, a female fan obsessed with his band. The two, against all odds and types, fall in love, and drift around the suburbs of the midwest. It’s a love story, but it’s also full of punk-rock indie sensibilities, with an edge that makes it feel unpredictable but still charming.
I was intrigued both by the story itself and the main cast, with Gallner, whom I am familiar with from his roles in the likes of American Sniper and Dear White People, to Skeggs herself, and...
- 5/28/2021
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Stars: Emily Skeggs, Kyle Gallner, Lea Thompson, Brian Andrus, Shelby Alayne Antel, Sophie Bolen, Gary Brunner, Nick Chinlund, Kristin Condon, Lena Drake | Written and Directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier
Written and directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier (The Bunny Game), Dinner in America is the tale of Patty (Emily Skeggs) and Simon (Kyle Gallner), the latter of whom is a punk rocker, and the former, a female fan obsessed with his band. The two, against all odds and types, fall in love, and drift around the suburbs of the midwest. It’s a love story, but it’s also full of punk-rock indie sensibilities, with an edge that makes it feel unpredictable but still charming.
I was intrigued both by the story itself and the main cast, with Gallner, whom I am familiar with from his roles in the likes of American Sniper and Dear White People, to Skeggs herself, and...
Written and directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier (The Bunny Game), Dinner in America is the tale of Patty (Emily Skeggs) and Simon (Kyle Gallner), the latter of whom is a punk rocker, and the former, a female fan obsessed with his band. The two, against all odds and types, fall in love, and drift around the suburbs of the midwest. It’s a love story, but it’s also full of punk-rock indie sensibilities, with an edge that makes it feel unpredictable but still charming.
I was intrigued both by the story itself and the main cast, with Gallner, whom I am familiar with from his roles in the likes of American Sniper and Dear White People, to Skeggs herself, and...
- 8/25/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Chicago – The art of the short film is catching up to our tech-laden short attention spans, but they also often serve as a calling card for the filmmakers of the future. The monthly Midwest Independent Film Festival will have their Spring “Midwest Shorts” on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019, at the Landmark Century Cinema in Chicago. For details and tickets, click here.
The evening will include Wham, directed by Robert Bruce Carter, a physical comedy in which two people fall in love on a sidewalk and a ripple effect ensues; I’M Not Happy But I’M Trying, directed by Jonathan Janas, in which the most cheerful man in town fights his own personal demons and hardships with balloons; June, directed by Shelby Alayne Antel and Andy Hones, the story of a dispute that causes a woman to find an unlikely confidant in her next-door neighbor about her personal struggles; Outside, directed by Samantha Ellis,...
The evening will include Wham, directed by Robert Bruce Carter, a physical comedy in which two people fall in love on a sidewalk and a ripple effect ensues; I’M Not Happy But I’M Trying, directed by Jonathan Janas, in which the most cheerful man in town fights his own personal demons and hardships with balloons; June, directed by Shelby Alayne Antel and Andy Hones, the story of a dispute that causes a woman to find an unlikely confidant in her next-door neighbor about her personal struggles; Outside, directed by Samantha Ellis,...
- 3/4/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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