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The Sweet East

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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. Read More Read Less
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A consistently amusing satire of modern American life, The Sweet East is so engaging from moment to moment that it's easy to forgive its somewhat hazy thesis.

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Catherine Wheatley Sight & Sound The Sweet East reveals itself as an undeniably exhilarating ride, surreal and satirical, and not quite of this world. Apr 2, 2024 Full Review Kevin Maher Times (UK) Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri are the big draws in this ramshackle American satire that’s equal parts punk swagger and lazy repetition. Rated: 2/5 Apr 1, 2024 Full Review Wendy Ide Observer (UK) For all its to-the-moment social commentary, the film has roots in the anarchistic, surrealist 60s: Lillian could be a direct descendant of minxy troublemakers Marie I and Marie II from Věra Chytilová’s Daisies, reimagined for the TikTok generation. Rated: 3/5 Mar 31, 2024 Full Review Jack Martin Film Feeder For all of its out-there plotting and surreal concepts, I had a good time with The Sweet East, a movie that had been sold to me as “Alice in MAGA-land”... and somehow went beyond those wild expectations. Rated: 4/5 Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Kevin Wight The Wee Review Overly arch and empty road trip provocation Rated: 2 Jun 2, 2024 Full Review John Serba Decider Don’t mistake The Sweet East for a focused narrative – it’s a borderline-experimental look at what appears to be the failing American experiment. Should we be laughing? Maybe not, but here we are anyway. May 23, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ghederick Eshmont The film is very fun & compelling in the first 45mins…but the final hour is a bit of a slog. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/24 Full Review Bruce W Talia Ryder is incredible. I’m usually not a huge fan of weird indies, but this is an exception Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/30/24 Full Review Sal L The Sweet East wants to be as experimental as possible for an indie project, but in the end, it will only test your patience as it goes on. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/08/24 Full Review Nefasto R Funny, weird, situation-to-situation kind of coming-of-age. Enjoyable. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/02/24 Full Review Jamie C I really wanted to like it. The cast are great but it just got too absurd and repetitive for my tastes. The girl just keeps getting captured! It's trying to be engaging , and it nearly worked but I just couldn't care at all about any of them. I do want movies like this to keep being made as they are the ones that effect me most but this one just didn't hit me in the way I wanted it to. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review Toby L Wild and absurd in places, but reflecting the wild and absurd times we live in. Fantastic acting, writing and cinematography. The most unique film I've seen this year when even most independent films seem similar lately. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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.
Director
Sean Price Williams
Producer
Craig Butta, Alex Coco, Alex Ross Perry
Screenwriter
Nick Pinkerton
Distributor
Utopia
Production Co
Base 12 Productions, Marathon Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 1, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$331.9K
Runtime
1h 44m
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