Grief wears sunglasses and pretends everything's fine in this sun-drenched soul-searcher.
An engaging coming-of-age, LA BOUND also blends drama, humor and elements of romantic comedy as it tells the story of a recent high school graduate's quest to move on with his life in the wake of his sister's death.
Acting
Judy Greer does that thing where she breaks your heart in three scenes.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like humans, not screenwriting software.
Director
Chris McGowan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chris McGowan reportedly developed this after losing his own sibling, explaining the raw specificity of grief's mundane moments.
Shot during 2019's actual wildfire season, the amber skies weren't color-graded — that's documentary anxiety bleeding into fiction.
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