The Color Wheel

USA, 2011, 83 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: American Indie, Dark Comedy, Family Issues
Programs: Contemporary World Cinema, New Directors Showcase, Reel Social Club
Language: English

DIRECTOR: Alex Ross Perry
Producer: Alex Ross Perry, Bob Byington
Editor: Alex Ross Perry
Screenwriter: Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman
Cinematographer: Sean Price Williams
Principal Cast: Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman, Bob Byington, Kate Lyn Sheil, Anna Bak-Kvapil, Ry Russo-Young
US Distributor: Cinema Conservancy

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Digital presentation - The Color Wheel is the story of JR, an increasingly transient aspiring news anchor, as she forces her disappointing younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s apartment. Problem is, these grown up kids do not get along, and are both too obnoxious to know better. Chaos and calamity are not far behind her beat up Honda Accord.Too bad that nobody else in the world can stand either of them. Not Colin’s neglectful girlfriend, nor JR’s former high school friends, nor strangers they clash with at pretty much every step of their hopeless and increasingly infuriating voyage of frustration, failure and jerks. It can only be a matter of time before JR and Colin arrive at the strangest and most unsettling of resolutions and put to rest their decades of animosity, half-baked sibling rivalry and endless bickering.Resting uncomfortably somewhere between the solipsistic, unrepressed id of late Jerry Lewis, and the confrontational pseudo-sexual self-loathing of Philip Roth and shot on grainy 16mm black and white evoking the motels, diners and loners of Robert Frank’s America, The Color Wheel is a comedic symphony of disappointment and forgiveness.

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