A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who decide to go into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives.
Acting
Farnsworth and Foster sell the sweaty desperation.
Direction
Fever-dream visuals that mimic the drug's grip.
Director
Matt Farnsworth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Farnsworth wrote, directed, starred, and allegedly did much of this on credit cards and prayers. The TMDB 2.8 is brutal but the cult following is real.
Released two years before Breaking Bad premiered, this was meth cinema before meth cinema was cool—proving the Midwest's drug crisis was visible to anyone actually looking.
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