Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a reunion. The wild bunch she grew up with have settled into respectable family life. Adding insult to injury, her former boyfriend is engaged to the most bourgeois blonde on the East Coast. Margaret reacts by diving into a drinking and drugs marathon. With two remaining fellow souls, she roams the suburban no man’s land and ends up in an incomparable adventure with kidnapping, extortion, misunderstandings and clumsy violence as basic ingredients.
Acting
Kate Lyn Sheil's committed unraveling—messy, specific, devastatingly funny.
Writing
Dialogue that captures the cruelty of old friends who've outgrown you.
Director
Michael Kerry Matthews
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'mumblecore' diaspora—shot on micro-budget with improvisational energy, reflecting late-2010s indie cinema's obsession with privileged people making terrible choices.
The Matthews brothers cast themselves in key roles; Thomas plays Henry, one of Margaret's fellow disaster tourists, giving the film an uncomfortable autobiographical edge.
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