Freak Weather

Writer Mary Kuryla's debut feature follows a battered, feckless, one-woman disaster area who's frantically trying to hold together the pitiful shreds of her life as it spirals into chaos and violence. On an atypically chilly day in Los Angeles, self-destructive junkie Penny (Jacqueline McKenzie) is thrown out by her unseen, unemployed boyfriend, Jimmi, and told not to return until she's accomplished three tasks. If she hasn't picked up his last paycheck, bought pizza for dinner and gotten rid of the aging family dog, an oversize tangle of fur named Mink, by day's end, she might as well not bother coming home at all. Hiding a formidable shiner behind dark glasses and ...