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The Sweet East

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The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
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A consistently amusing satire of modern American life, The Sweet East is so engaging from moment to moment that it's easy to forgive its somewhat hazy thesis.

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Christina Newland iNews.co.uk It may not always hang together into a perfectly cogent social or political message, but it does feel like a fascinating series of vignettes about just how far we’ve all fallen. Rated: 4/5 Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Catherine Wheatley Sight & Sound The Sweet East reveals itself as an undeniably exhilarating ride, surreal and satirical, and not quite of this world. Apr 2, 2024 Full Review Kevin Maher Times (UK) Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri are the big draws in this ramshackle American satire that’s equal parts punk swagger and lazy repetition. Rated: 2/5 Apr 1, 2024 Full Review William Stottor Flickering Myth There are a few stumbles along the way—mainly in The Sweet East’s messy and unsubtle navigation of modern America—but it is impossible not to be seduced by the film’s blend of gritty realism and trippy surrealism. Rated: 4/5 Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Elsa Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain) A satire of the United States through a Gen Z lens, Williams' film manages to capture us with its delirium, but oozes the type of humor and ideas of a half-baked adolescent... [Full review in Spanish] Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Luis Martínez El Mundo (Spain) Nothing more than a joyous celebration of chaos. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ghederick Eshmont The film is very fun & compelling in the first 45mins…but the final hour is a bit of a slog. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/24 Full Review Henry S i expected more but got less Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/27/24 Full Review Bruce W Talia Ryder is incredible. I’m usually not a huge fan of weird indies, but this is an exception Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/30/24 Full Review Sal L The Sweet East wants to be as experimental as possible for an indie project, but in the end, it will only test your patience as it goes on. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/08/24 Full Review Nefasto R Funny, weird, situation-to-situation kind of coming-of-age. Enjoyable. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/02/24 Full Review Jamie C I really wanted to like it. The cast are great but it just got too absurd and repetitive for my tastes. The girl just keeps getting captured! It's trying to be engaging , and it nearly worked but I just couldn't care at all about any of them. I do want movies like this to keep being made as they are the ones that effect me most but this one just didn't hit me in the way I wanted it to. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
Director
Sean Price Williams
Producer
Craig Butta, Alex Coco, Alex Ross Perry
Screenwriter
Nick Pinkerton
Distributor
Utopia
Production Co
Base 12 Productions, Marathon Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 1, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$331.9K
Runtime
1h 44m
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