Eight minutes to unlearn everything your parents taught you.
A soon to be high school graduate questions the path his parents have laid out for him, after leaving town in a desperate attempt to escape, a friend forces him to come to the realization that life doesn't have an answer.
Acting
Fortune's silent panic speaks volumes
Cinematography
Illinois flatness as emotional prison
Writing
Eight minutes, zero fat, maximum ache
Director
Alex R. Wagner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Alex R. Wagner shot this during his own senior year at Illinois State, casting classmates who were living the same anxieties.
Part of a 2012 wave of micro-budget coming-of-age shorts that rejected the John Hughes nostalgia dominating indie film at the time.
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