Sharon 66
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Jordan Tetewsky, Joshua Pikovsky
Tones: contemplative, humorous, melancholic
Two mid-20s underachievers in suburban Massachusetts watch a hometown peer ink a major label deal and decide it's their turn. The path to greatness involves a lot of hanging out, half-finished projects, and quietly metabolized envy.
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The scouts
Slacker cinema is allegedly dead and yet here it is, breathing, bored, jealous of the kid down the street. Tetewsky and Pikovsky know that envy is the unsung engine of American art.
Slacker-cinema with actual hometown texture rather than generic suburbia — Bujalski-Funny-Ha-Ha lineage applied to specific Massachusetts envy, and that specificity is the whole game.
That specific suburban-Massachusetts texture and the envy-as-quiet-motivator throughline reads like the real thing. The Chris Daken signing being a third-party offstage event is a smart slacker-movie move.
Reviews
True slacker cinema that captures low energy ambitions / delusions