Official Selection Out of Competition · 43rd Edition
RED ROCKET
Director
Sean BAKER
Country
United States
Runtime
2 h 8 min
Synopsis
The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny, raw, and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.
Cast
Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, Ethan Darbone, Brenda Deiss
Screenplay
Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Producers
Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Alex Saks, Shih-Ching Tsou
About the Director
Born in 1971 in New York. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is an award-winning writer/director/producer known for "Take Out" (2004), "Prince of Broadway" (2008), "Starlet" (2012), "Tangerine" (2015), and "The Florida Project" (2017). Sean's latest feature, Red Rocket, premiered at Cannes 2021. Baker is also the co-creator of the long-running comedy show "Greg the Bunny" (2005).
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