Shithouse (2020)
Directed by Cooper Raiff
Lonely college freshman Alex has closed himself off from his peers, who all appear to have this whole "college thing" figured out. But everything changes one night when Alex takes a leap and attends a party at Shithouse - a legendary party fraternity - where he forges a strong connection with Maggie.
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Shithouse marks the impressive debut of writer-director-star Cooper Raiff, who generates some low-key Before Sunrise vibes with the tale of a sensitive, homesick college freshman who might just be the last non-toxic white male on campus.
The movie borrows the discursive getting-to-know-one-another formula from movies like Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise,” but doesn’t give its characters anything particularly memorable to say.
Well pitched and briefly suggesting a less intellectually ambitious kid brother to Before Sunrise , the film's only serious misstep is its name: Though it's true a party at a communal campus dwelling called The Shithouse sets the story in motion, that moniker's in-your-face vulgarity could hardly be less representative of the story's gentle, sad protagonist.
The two walk and talk, “Before Sunrise”-style, bury Maggie’s departed turtle, and sleep together.
But in crafting a college love story with shades of “Before Sunrise,” Raiff has made a movie that has a lot more to say about his leading man than his leading lady.
There’s a little slapstick, a little drama, a little judging, a few good (not great) lines and a few instances of bad sex in this “Before Sunrise.”