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The Adults

Horizons 2023 / The Adults / USA 2023

The Adults The Adults

Synopsis

Eric, Rachel, Maggie. Three siblings once connected by a strong bond, which was then broken by the process of growing up and separation. Eric repeatedly avoids any debate about the past, yet when he takes a brief trip back home, he can’t escape confrontation with his sisters. What’s more, the thought of getting together with his old poker group is too enticing for him to leave as planned. This acidly comic yet sorrowful sibling drama relies on a prosaic visual language and offers a subtle insight into complex family constellations, where there is love but no functional tools of communication. Is it possible to address the past through our childhood selves? After all, we don’t have to give up our children’s games in adulthood, or do we?

Sandra Hezinová

About the film

91 min / Color, DCP

Director Dustin Guy Defa / Screenplay Dustin Guy Defa / Dir. of Photography Tim Curtin / Music Alex Weston / Sound Gaelan Mullins / Editor Michael Taylor, Dustin Guy Defa / Art Director Caity Birmingham / Producer Jon Read, Allison Rose Carter / Production Savage Rose Films / Coproduction Dweck Productions / Cast Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis / Sales NBCUniversal

About the director

Dustin Guy Defa

Dustin Guy Defa (1975, Salt Lake City, Utah). Selected filmography: Bad Fever (2012), Person to Person (2014, short), Bad Fever (2017), The Adults (2023).

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