Two brothers, one dead mom, zero brain cells. Chaos ensues.
Chocolate Milk is the story of two slow-witted brothers, Kyle and Phillip, who are forced to fend their way through life after a low-flying Cessna killed their mother. Kyle is an eternal optimist and Phillip is depressed, lazy and lives in the past. This film follows Kyle and his determination to get Phillip off the couch and out into the world by going on a job interview, which goes terribly wrong.
Acting
Harvey Guillén commits to Phillip's couch-locked despair like his life depends on it.
Writing
Dialogue so deliberately dumb it loops back around to genius.
Director
Michael Ring
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 23-minute oddity features Lucas Grabeel (High School Musical's Ryan) in a blink-and-miss-it role as 'Stan'—a casting choice that feels like a fever dream.
Part of a wave of early-2010s indie shorts that used grotesque premises to explore male grief, though most had slightly bigger budgets than 'low-flying Cessna' as inciting incident.
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