The Midwestern USA is the setting for the birth of the coolest screen couple since Harold und Maude: punk rocker Simon, who can’t get his shit together in spite of his killer moustache, and Patty, a loser who gets bullied in school for being a loner with ill-fitting leggings. Still, somehow they manage to hit it off, as the viewer quivers nervously in the hope that they might find true happiness on Earth.

The maladjusted performances from the two leads account for a significant part of this brilliant film’s charm. Emily Skeggs proves that you can also be a full-on rock chick in striped pullover and unstyled hair, and even militant non-smokers would give Kyle Gallner a light. Viva suburbia!

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Adam Carter Rehmeier had spent a decade working in Hollywood as a DP/editor/intuitive documentarian before making the jump to writer/director with his controversial, award-winning debut THE BUNNY GAME, which screened at over 40 film festivals around the world. Currently, his miniseries HEARTLAND is in development, and he will be helming his follow-up feature, SAVE A BULLET FOR ME, which he also wrote.

Filmography: 2011 THE BUNNY GAME, 2013 JONAS, 2020 DINNER IN AMERICA