Ruth Duffy is getting by on an assistant's salary at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan, managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her teenage years. Jonny Collins is working local jobs near the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Bronx. When they cross paths after years apart, Jonny is as consumed with Ruth as he was in their high school days, and he infiltrates her life for love and profit.
Acting
Finn Wittrock's unsettling charm masks Jonny's desperation perfectly
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes awkward pauses and unspoken history
Director
Stacy Cochran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stacy Cochran shot portions guerrilla-style at actual elite Manhattan schools, blurring documentary and fiction.
The film quietly inverts the 'manic pixie dream girl'—here, the man exists only to disrupt a woman's carefully constructed stability.
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