Official selection
Sundance Film Festival 2020 Calgary Underground Film Festival 2020
Honors
Audience Award, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2020
Director
Adam Carter Rehmeier
Writer
Adam Carter Rehmeier
Cast
Kyle Gallner, Griffin Gluck, Pat Healy, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Emily Skeggs, Lea Thompson
Producer
John Covert, David Hunter, Ross Putman, Sam Slater, Ben Stiller, Nicholas Weinstock
Cinematographer
Jean-Philippe Bernier
Composer
John Swihart
Editor
Adam Carter Rehmeier
contact
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Join us after the screening at 8:50pm for a live Q&A with Director Adam Rehmeier, Actors Emily Skeggs, Kyle Gallner, Ross Putman and Cinematographer Jean-Philippe Bernier
“As if Valley Girl was accidentally shunted into a teleportation machine alongside Sid & Nancy and the whole soupy stew beamed into the 90s. Funny and fucked up like some speed-snorting comic on an all-time bender”
Ant Timpson, director of COME TO DADDY
“It’s honestly one of the best dark comedies I’ve seen in years, and I can’t wait to watch it again”
Lorry Kitka, FILM THREAT
Socially awkward Patty (Emily Skeggs, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST) gets bullied on the regular, works a pet-store job that she hates, and has what could generously be described as an uncomfortable home life. A chance encounter with on-the-lam punk rocker Simon (Kyle Gallner, AMERICAN SNIPER) changes her world. Not because he sweeps her off her feet. He’s dismissive, aggro, and has a penchant for randomly setting fires. Just the same, their combined energies unlock a powder keg of inner revolutions as they embark on an insane journey through the sinking suburbs of the American Midwest. A pukingly riotous anti-romantic comedy – that just happens to be genuinely romantic – about self-discovery through anger, creativity and music, existing in a universe between WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE and REPO MAN.
Writer/director Adam Rehmeier (JONAS, THE BUNNY GAME) has made something so special, inspired by his love for the early-’90s punk scene of Lincoln, Nebraska, with heaps of formative time spent four-tracking in lockouts. His misfit characters, initially cartoonish, are built on foundations of interior loneliness and brought thundering to life by Skeggs and Gallner, both of whom couldn’t be better, building to a chemistry that’s just unreal. This isn’t some kind of white-knight romantic fantasy either. Patty’s road to empowerment comes from within and is sparked through creativity and conflict. It’s beautiful, funny and unabashedly charming, even at crassest, with Rehmeier’s high-energy editing and vivid scope cinematography from Jean-Philippe Bernier (TURBO KID) further blasting the film through the ceiling. With all its abrasiveness and gross-out laughs, DINNER IN AMERICA oozes affection in the most unexpected and sincere ways, while smashing a hammer through the mirrors of suburbia’s less than pleasant underbelly. It’s painfully hilarious, and punk-as-fuck fantastic. – Mitch Davis
WATCH THE Q&A HERE
with Director Adam Rehmeier, Actors Emily Skeggs, Kyle Gallner, Ross Putman and Cinematographer Jean-Philippe Bernier
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