Red Rocket
2021
Synopsis
Down and out in Los Angeles, ex-porn star Mikey Saber returns to his hometown of Texas City, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law live. As he begins to patch things up and make a living as a drug dealer, Mikey becomes smitten with Strawberry, a teenager working at a local doughnut shop.
Editorial
Pursuing the modern American dream is both comically absurd and shockingly sinister in this provocative tale of deluded ambition. Pointedly set on the eve of Trump’s election, and with a magnetic lead in ex-porn star Simon Rex, Red Rocket is a blistering critique of the cult of personality.
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