The Sweet East
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!
Director: Sean Price Williams Run Time: 104 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Jacob Elordi, Jeremy O. Harris, Ayo Edebiri
The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
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