
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.... (Full plot summary below)
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Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
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| The AtlanticSophie GilbertLiu’s intimacy with his subjects becomes contagious, to the point where their small victories are thrilling and their failures feel devastating. |
| The GateAndrew ParkerIt's an unparalleled and uncomparable look at how a stifling environment produces shared, learned behaviours and sometimes inescapable cycles of quiet suffering. |
| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAs such, it possesses an intimacy that could never be acquired without years of shared experience, and heartache. And probably road rash. |
| Jaredmobarak.comJared MobarakThe result is this unforgettably beautiful depiction of honest self-reflection and transformative possibility. |
| The Daily BeastNick SchagerConveying the various destructive forces and patterns that plagued their childhood and threaten to derail their journey to adulthood, it's a raw portrait of trauma and catharsis. |
| DeciderJoe ReidThis is one of the best and most affecting documentaries of the year... a tightly focused story that is both unnerving and empathetic at once. |
| NewcityRay PrideThis is not a puzzle made plain, but a narrative carved from passing instants: refracted, shaped, revealed, reflecting... Issues of class, race and masculinity disperse across the landscape... coolly observed in footage that can appear deceptively raw. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansLiu's camerawork and editing are amazing. |
| NOW TorontoKevin RitchieBing Liu's stunning feature debut explores what it means to be man coming of age in economically depressed America...The effect packs an emotional wallop. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussMay be a form of therapeutic exorcism for the filmmaker but it's a portrait of all-American despair (economic and otherwise) for us, complete with racial discomfort, cycles of domestic abuse, skateboard acrobatics and Fourth of July fireworks. |