For a movie that takes its title from a cliche,
The Joneses actually has some refreshing observations about the ill effects of our inexplicable desire to be amongst the earliest of adaptors, and the most fashionable figures in our community. Released at a time when the American economy is in an unsettling state of flux, yet our obsession with having the latest model iPhone or the highest resolution flat-screen television is at an all-time high, writer/director Derrick Borte’s freshman feature feels as if it were almost willed into being by some sort of abstract common madness rather than scripted and produced like your typical feature film. And while
The Jo...
Released:
2009
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins