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Avocado Toast
USA 2021
produced by Karl Danielson, David Burke, Tyler Farr, Mark Dvornik (executive), Colleen Keane (executive), Gary Dover (executive), Samuel Toole (executive), James Fox (executive), Mikayla Iverson (executive), Eric Doctorow (executive), Don Rosenberg (executive) for Good Coyote Films
directed by Tyler Farr
starring Justin Ray, Jyllian Petrie, Mikayla Iverson, Joe Burns, Joshua Michael French, Tito Livas, Chad Wright, Nicholas Peterson, Amanda K. Wall, Mitchell Schouten, Grace Farr, Harrison Farr, Eric Osmond, Tanya Price, Savannah Ostler, Jason K. Wixom, Isaac Jaten, Kevin A. Clark, Annmarie O. Clark, Atlee O. Clark, Cashton Clark, Lorenzo Silva, Courtney Whittier, Kjirstin Youngberg, Bryson Alejandro, Alireza Mirmontazeri, Brittney Souther, Jana Timpson, David Burke, Britney Wright, Jeremy Wright, Craig Gregersen, Normandy Wanberg, Kayla Bergstrom, Michael Labertew, Chelsea Farr, Mikaela Shiraki Byrd, Tyler Farr, Doug Farr, Charles Unice
written by Tyler Farr, music by Drew A. Forbes
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Having pretty much just found out that he's technically a millenial
rather than gen X, Adam (Justin Ray) has a very early midlife crisis,
suddenly desparate to not miss out on anything and do what he thinks
millenials are doing these days - like basically going vegan, playing
video games and being annoyingly self-centered. He also quits his
well-paid yet boring desk job and instead starts working at a hip coffee
shop for minimum wage, and to say he's slightly interested in the coffee
shop's attractive owner Sydney (Mikayla Iverson) would be an
understatement. Now all of this would be fine and dandy if he wasn't
married to Jennifer (Jyllian Petrie), had two kids (Harrison and Grace
Farr), and there's still a mortgage on their house. And while Jennifer at
first actually tries to participate in what she considers a whim of
Adam's, he soon takes things too far, like leaving bills unpaid, and
forgetting important dates of his kids. There's only one friend who
supports Adam, actually, his former colleague Matt (Joe Burns), who a
millenial himself eases Adam into the lifestyle - which even includes
setting a date with Sydney for Adam - a date that almost leads to sex, and
that makes Adam rethink his actions - but by that time, it might already
be too late ... Now this is a film that isn't always
super-subtle and at times a little far fetched - but that all said, it's
also pretty funny, as more often the jokes and also the satire hit their
mark, without the thing ever becoming moronic. Plus, the film affords
itself just enough heart to hold the thing together in a compelling way
but stay awayx from pure cheese (especially evidenced in the final
dialogue, an only supposed heart-to-heart between Adam and his wife). And
the whole ensemble cast is relatable enough to hit the story home without
relying too much on caricatures, making this one a pretty enjoyable comedy
for sure - not only for millenials and gen X-ers.
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Robots and rats,
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love and death and everything in between,
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the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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