Nic(ole) Bettauer's dystopian road movie is most successful as a showcase for Philip Baker Hall, who's most often relegated to supporting roles and brings a heartbreaking dignity and fundamental decency to the role of Los Angeles widower Arthur Pratt, who's had the misfortune to lose everyone and everything that made life worth living.
It's 2009, and something very bad has happened. The L.A. streets are strewn with trash and the social safety net is gone: Social Security has been disassembled, rent control is a thing of the past, pensions have been abolished and Jeb Bush is president. It's a world hostile to pets — they carry plague — and plants, which "eat ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins