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Mood:
- HumorousOffbeatTouchingWitty
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Plot:
- Looking for SexAdolescence Vs AdulthoodTwentysomething LifeLifestyleYouthCouplesFriendsBest Friends more...
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Genres:
- ComedyIndependent
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- College
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Audience:
- Date NightTeens
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Box Elder, 2008
English
USA
Profile of Box Elder
The mood of Box Elder is humorous, witty, and offbeat. The plot centers around adolescence vs. adulthood, looking for sex, and twentysomething life. It is a comedy and independent movie. In approach, Box Elder is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, at a college. It happens in contemporary times. Box Elder is especially suggested for a date night and teens.
Summary of Box Elder
Box elder bugs are loud, scary looking, and dependent on group swarming. Yet, they're also completely harmless and extremely passive aggressive. Using this metaphor to address a generation that thinks big, talks fast, and threatens to change the world, Box Elder is an unapologetic portrait of a youth movement at odds with its own ambivalence, exposing a generation defined by privilege, potential, and self-induced paralysis.At once painfully hilarious and delicately poignant, the film follows four best friends through their last years of college. Dependant on their parents financially, and on each other emotionally, they spend their time sleeping in, hanging out, and eating lots of sandwiches. Using break-ups and re-occurring scholastic failures to impose a quarter-life crisis, they take turns postponing responsibility, avoiding accountability, and looking for someone or something to substantiate their lives, all the while hedging their bets and mastering the art of treading water and getting away with it.Shot locally in Columbia, MO on a shoe-string budget, Sklar's debut feature is a collegiate love letter that not only paints an honest portrait of it's subject matter, but also evokes the nostalgic yearning the film's character's revel in.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 3 March 2008 |
| Runtime: | 89 min |
Cast and Crew
as Laura Glaser
as Phil Ryerson
as Jason Franks
as Dudley Ginsberg
