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Pearblossom Hwy

(Pearblossom Hwy)
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Original Title : Pearblossom Hwy
Time : 78 Min
Genre : Drama
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2012
Director : Mike Ott
Writer : Mike Ott, Atsuko Okatsuka
Producer : Heika Burnison, Molly Hansen, Mike Ott, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : Greece, United States
Original Language : English, Japanese
About : "What else am I? What else can I say? I'm a troublemaker," says Cory, one of the three protagonists, directly into the camera. The other protagonists are Anna, an illegal immigrant from Japan who is selling her body to make money to get ...See more"What else am I? What else can I say? I'm a troublemaker," says Cory, one of the three protagonists, directly into the camera. The other protagonists are Anna, an illegal immigrant from Japan who is selling her body to make money to get back home, and Jeff, Cory's homophobic brother, a former soldier who now lives day-to-day. In the style of New Wave filmmakers, the director draws on sensitive moments from actors' lives (meeting your father for the first time, a grandmother sick on another continent), so it's never clear whether we are watching reconstructed reality or the director's vision. Ott warns that his film is about the abandoned youth in America's small towns and the fallacy of the American Dream, and--most importantly--the truth that lies somewhere in that porous threshold between fact and fiction. Written by Artur Zaborski See less Read more: Plot summary

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