Ghostbox Cowboy

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Ghostbox Cowboy

2018

1h 30m

Comedy

Drama

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A Texas entrepreneur reinvents himself as a cowboy in China's tech industry.

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

A scary, dryly funny dissection of entrepreneurial absurdism bleeding into existential and metaphysical despair.

Dec 13, 2018

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

This original if sometimes befuddling vision blurs the line between fiction and documentary elements, conventional storytelling and improvisational collage, all to oft-bracing effect.

Nov 30, 2018

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

The movie is unique, and often off-putting, in ways that should be exciting to open-minded cinephiles.

Nov 29, 2018

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A.S. Hamrah

n+1

Immersed in our shared dollar-store world of travel-sized toiletries, useless trinkets, and selfie sticks, Ghostbox Cowboy investigates American and Chinese capitalism by presenting two sides of the same bad penny.

Mar 29, 2019

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Lorry Kikta

Film Threat

The score by Casey Wayne McAllister encapsulates the dystopian discomfort the film is out to convey, somehow being serene yet grating simultaneously.

Rated: 9/10

Jan 18, 2019

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Ron Wilkinson

It's Just Movies

A scam flick that quickly breaks out into fantasy and morphs into a good-natured nightmare.

Rated: 7/10

May 12, 2018

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Audience Member

I hated everyone in this movie. Looks great but is hard work at times. I get it. That's about it.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

Weird start. Quite vague. Looks like it was filmed on video - grainy. Pretty B grade. No idea why it has a high rating.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/31/18

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Synopsis

A Texas entrepreneur reinvents himself as a cowboy in China's tech industry.

Director: John Maringouin
Producer: Sean Gillane, Molly Lynch, John Maringouin, John Montague, Billy Peterson, George Rush
Screenwriter: John Maringouin
Distributor: Dark Star Pictures
Production Co: Scope Dog, 23rd Street Films, Lightshow Films, Sino-American Regional Trade Enterprise, Big Horn Global, Grunkok Company
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 30, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 3, 2019
Runtime: 1h 30m

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