The Sweet East

Released Dec 1, 2023

1 hr. 44 min.

Drama

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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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Critics Consensus

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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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

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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

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Nefasto R

Funny, weird, situation-to-situation kind of coming-of-age. Enjoyable.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/02/24

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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

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Toby L

Wild and absurd in places, but reflecting the wild and absurd times we live in. Fantastic acting, writing and cinematography. The most unique film I've seen this year when even most independent films seem similar lately.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/29/24

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Helene C

Loved it. Laughed out loud more than a few times, the dialogue is so well written. Talia Ryder is magnetic. Loved the music, costumes... Simon Rex needs to be in a million more movies..

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/29/24

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Sean Price Williams

Director

Talia Ryder

Lillian

Earl Cave

Caleb

Simon Rex

Lawrence

Jacob Elordi

Ian

Jeremy O. Harris

Matthew

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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

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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

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

For all its to-the-moment social commentary, the film has roots in the anarchistic, surrealist 60s: Lillian could be a direct descendant of minxy troublemakers Marie I and Marie II from Věra Chytilová’s Daisies, reimagined for the TikTok generation.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 31, 2024

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Lisa Nystrom

FILMINK (Australia)

Provocative, surreal, and wandering seemingly without purpose, The Sweet East feels like an uncomfortable dream you can’t quite shake after waking.

Rated: 15/20

Apr 23, 2024

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Harry Guerin

RTÉ (Ireland)

Strangely, for such a scattergun movie, The Sweet East is pacy and moves far better than many a mainstream offering.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 19, 2024

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Paul Whitington

Irish Independent

The Sweet East has a ragged charm but is a little too glib to be taken seriously as a political satire.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 19, 2024

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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
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): $327.7K

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