Authentic, subversive, and completely different For When You Get Lost is a film that tells the stories of family dysfunction through a darkly comedic lens. The road-tripping aspect of this coming of middle age tale also provides genuine pathos from start to finish and a lot of laughs along the way.
Not to say it’s perfect. But it’s so itself that you can’t help but be impressed by how heartfelt things have gotten by the time the credits roll.
Jack (Brian Thomas Smith), June’s ex-boyfriend, catches her staging a suicide. Which turns into an actual suicide. But not really though. Not for long, at least. Something about beer? I don’t know Note to self. Never attempt suicide in a Prius C.
“Road tripping provides genuine pathos from start to finish, and a ton of laughs along the way.”
Then June gets a call about her dying father. Mark L. Taylor plays her dad. Showing up unannounced on his deathbed after a Pacific Coast road trip down memory lane, June hopes to rekindle her relationship with sister Cami (Elizabeth Alderfer) and get an apology she feels owed over Dad’s past parenting mistakes.
Authentic, subversive, and completely different For When You Get Lost is a film that beautifully articulates the tragedies of familial dysfunction through its darkly comedic lens. Moreover, this coming-of-middle-age tale’s road-tripping premise provides genuine pathos from start to finish and a ton of laughs along the way.
This isn’t to say that the film is free from fault, but instead remains so unabashedly itself that you can’t help but admire how heartfelt things have gotten by the time the credits roll.
Jack (Brian Thomas Smith), June’s ex-boyfriend, catches her staging a suicide. Which turns into an actual suicide.But not really though.Not for long, at least.Something about beer? I don’t know Note to self: Never attempt suicide in a Prius C.
“Road tripping provides genuine pathos from start to finish, and a ton of laughs along the way.”
Then June gets a call about her dying father. Mark L. Taylor plays her dad. Showing up unannounced on his deathbed after a Pacific Coast road trip down memory lane, June hopes to rekindle her relationship with sister Cami (Elizabeth Alderfer) and get an apology she feels owed over Dad’s past parenting mistakes.
If you’re thinking, “Yikes. That sounds pretty heavy duty.”, then you’d be right. For When You Get Lost doesn’t pull punches when it comes to the drama we see on-screen. It does a fantastic job of hedging those resonant moments against comedic beats that draw attention to life’s undeniable absurdity. You’ll laugh so that you don’t cry.
It’s about Americana. It’s about family. It’s about beer and made me want one more than I’d care to admit. June stops at breweries along the coast with Cami, resting and refueling shifting perspectives and readying herself for a world without her dad. Allowing these narrative folds to infuse comedy into a story barreling toward death and disaster. Literally.
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