My Daughter's Boyfriend
2015 · 10m · USA
Directed by Joey Izzo
Tones: melancholic, tense
A divorced mother tries to sabotage her daughter's relationship with a charming but questionable boyfriend, never quite admitting whether it's protection or jealousy doing the driving.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A mom trying to wreck her daughter's relationship and refusing to clarify her own motives? Good — uncertain motives are the only motives worth filming. Bonus for Whitmer Thomas playing the wrong kind of charm.
Cast list is a who's-who of indie-comedy faces (Lisick, Whitmer Thomas, Povitsky) refusing to be cute — Swanberg-Gerwig California melancholy with a triangulated jealousy line. Promising.
Triangulated mom-daughter-boyfriend rivalry with that California melancholy bench (Lisick, Thomas, Povitsky) — refusing to let them be cute is the right call. Sounds like genuine indie tension.