Red Rocket 
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Filmmaker Sean Baker continues the hot streak he started with indie smashes Tangerine and The Florida Project with this engrossing tragicomedy about a washed-up former porn actor who returns home to Texas.
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex-porn star Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife (Bree Elrod) and mother-in-law (Brenda Deiss) are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry (Suzanna Son) working the cash register at a local doughnut shop and he falls right back into his old habits.
Part character study, part social commentary—the contentious runup to the 2016 presidential election serves as the backdrop—Red Rocket is a brilliantly unflinching portrait of a hustler.
Red Rocket screens in anticipation of the release of Sean Baker's Palme d'Or-winning Anora, screening at QFT as part of the London Film Festival on Sat 12 Oct, with a full release on Fri 1 Nov.
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