Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.
Acting
David Duchovny's unhinged, genuinely tender Goat Man
Writing
Vera Farmiga's narcissistic mom is too real to laugh at
Director
Christopher Neil
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Duchovny spent time with actual goat trekkers in Arizona and insisted on doing his own goat handling.
The film quietly satirizes the 'manic pixie dream parent' trope by making Goat Man's wisdom increasingly hollow as Ellis matures.
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