Adam Rehmeier
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"Dinner in America" has its cinematic references points, in a continuum with eclectic iconoclastic films like "Ghost World," "Welcome to the Dollhouse," or "Heathers" (one scene in "Dinner in America" specifically references a moment in "Heathers").
Rehmeier’s Dinner in America brings to mind widely assorted influences from indie classics like Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse, Jared Hess’s Napoleon Dynamite , Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World , Michael Lehmann’s Heathers , Allan Moyle’s Pump Up the Volume , Darren Stein’s Jawbreaker, Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America , Jefery Levy’s S.F.W ., Jason Reitman’s Juno , Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s American Splendor , Sam Mendes’s American Beauty , and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet , among others.
Rehmeier’s Dinner in America brings to mind widely assorted influences from indie classics like Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse, Jared Hess’s Napoleon Dynamite , Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World , Michael Lehmann’s Heathers , Allan Moyle’s Pump Up the Volume , Darren Stein’s Jawbreaker, Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America , Jefery Levy’s S.F.W ., Jason Reitman’s Juno , Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s American Splendor , Sam Mendes’s American Beauty , and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet , among others.
La apacible cena de Rockwell, amparada por las barras y las estrellas, crean una ilusión que Rehmeier pretende romper a través de los ojos de su protagonista Simon como años atrás Sam Mendes quiso hacer con Lester Burnham en American Beauty .
Patty invites Simon back to the home where she lives with her blandly oppressive parents Norm and Connie (Pat Healy, Mary Lynn Rajskub) and her tightly wound younger brother Kevin (Griffin Gluck) for a fraught, Buffalo ’66-style family meal.
A throwback to the brightly coloured offbeat teen movies of the 90s and a rude riposte to that era’s more mainstream offerings ( She’s All That ’s sexist makeover scene is subverted), this sweet romcom is buoyed up by the chemistry between its leads.