Two dudes, one dead-end life, zero patience for BS. Midwestern malaise hits different.
Two working class friends desire to escape from their depressing lives.
Acting
Mulkey and Jenkins feel like actual friends, not actors.
Direction
Wozniak/Morris capture Minneapolis like a character.
Production
Shot on location with locals—authenticity bleeds through.
Director
Victoria Wozniak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot for roughly $30,000 by two University of Minnesota grad students who met in a film class.
Pre-dates Hollywood's 70s working-class boom (Blue Collar, etc.) but got buried—possibly too real, too regional, too female-directed for 1975 distribution.
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