Pearblossom Hwy

Pearblossom Hwy

🎞️ Movie 78 min US
โ˜… 6.3 /10 2012

'What else am I? What else can I say. I'm a trouble maker. I've always wanted to be a rebel,' says Cory, one of the three protagonists of Pearblossom Hwy, directly into the camera. The other protagonists are Anna, an illegal immigrant from Japan who is selling her body to make money to get back home, and Jeff, Cory's homophobic brother, a former soldier who now lives day-to-day. In the style of New Wave filmmakers, the director draws on sensitive moments from actors' lives (meeting your father for the first time, a grandmother sick on another continent), so we are never sure if we are watching reconstructed reality or the director's vision. Ott warns us that his film is about the abandoned youth in the small towns of America and the fallacy of the American Dream, and most importantly, the truth that lies somewhere in that porous threshold between fact and fiction.

Cast

Atsuko Okatsuka
Atsuko Okatsuka
Atsuko
Atsuko Okatsuka
Atsuko Okatsuka
Anna Sakamoto
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Cory Zacharia
Cory Lawler
John Brotherton
John Brotherton
Jeff Lawler
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky
Rick Lawler
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Sarah Brill
Sera
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Al Bringas
Ken
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Ryan Dillon
Rian
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Sean Fujiwara
Nephew
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Lana Fukuda
Joy Sakamoto
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Doug Harvey
Old party dude
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María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
Composer
Mike Gioulakis
Mike Gioulakis
Cinematographer