Red Rocket

12/10/20212h 10m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

Overview:

Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop.

Director:

Sean Baker

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$1,100,000.00

Revenue:

$2,200,000.00

Key words:

texas
narcissism
relationship problems
porn star
estranged wife
selfishness
ex-husband ex-wife relationship
return home
frantic
candid
anxious
2010s
return to hometown
texas city
dramatic
unlikeable protagonist
admiring
adoring
ambiguous
ambivalent
antagonistic
audacious
brisk
cliché
dubious
exhilarated

Cast

Simon Rex

~ as ~

Mikey

Suzanna Son

~ as ~

Strawberry

Bree Elrod

~ as ~

Lexi

Ethan Darbone

~ as ~

Lonnie

Brenda Deiss

~ as ~

Lil

Judy Hill

~ as ~

Leondria

Brittney Rodriguez

~ as ~

June

Marlon Lambert

~ as ~

Ernesto

Vickie Pearce

~ as ~

Manager #1

Bashir Abboud

~ as ~

Manager #2

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
Simon Rex is "Mikey", a down on his luck former porn star who has to return to live with his unwelcoming ex wife "Lexi" (Bree Elrod) and her mother "Lil" (Brenda Deiss). He sleeps on their couch, can't get a job, so ends up dealing dope and that's when he meets the young - and innocent - "Strawberry" (Suzanna Son) who is working at a doughnut shop. He turns on all his charms and soon enough they decide that they are going to elope with $3,000 of his ill-gotten gains. Well, that's their plan anyway, Of course, his ex; her mother and the local drugs queenpin don't quite approve. At times it's quite niftily paced with quite a few laughs, but I found the plot to be really quite thin and predictable as the thing went on. As an observational piece on the sort of trailer-park existence in rural Texas, it is probably quite authentic, but it just didn't do much for me. Over two hours was just far too long to sustain the theme, and aside from quite an engagingly quirky effort from Deiss, I felt this was another film that could happily wait for it's small screen release before watching it.