In this low budget feature, the 27 year-old director, Drake Doremus (Spooner, Slamdance 2009), captures the feeling of awkwardness between two different and ordinary-looking brothers. Co-writing the script with Lindsay Stidham, Jonathan Schwartz, and Andrew Dickler, Doremus adds humor to the realistically raw and snappy dialogue, as well as to the natural and believable performances.
The overconfident, hippie-looking and devout vegetarian, Sam (Andrew Dickler), is about to marry his beautiful fiancee Steph (Marguerite Moreau).
Increasingly concerned that his shy brother Tom (Ben York Jones), a clean-cut, artist-wannabe, and in Sam's eyes, a complete loser, doesn't have a date for the wedding, Sam suggests that they both go on a road trip to search for Tom's mysterious last flame from fifth grade.
The feature gains steam in midsection with subtle and gradual shifts in the characters' dynamics.
Doremus effectively engages the viewer through the fine line between going towards and running away from something.
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