Screening Date: Sun. Nov. 12, 2023
Time: 4:15pm
Venue: The Main Cinema
Cost: $15
Premiere Status: MN
Run Time/Year/Country: 92min, 2022, USA
Director: Hannah Pearl Utt

Co-presented by Twin Cities Gay Scene, Twin Cities Film Festival, The Main Cinema, FilmNorth

Comedy queen Megan Stalter lights up the screen like a ticking time bomb in her leading role debut as the titular anti-heroine of this socially explosive comedy of errors from Hannah Pearl Utt (Before You Know It). Messy, delusional, and unwilling to establish a boundary, Cora shuffles between open mics as an aspiring musician in her adopted home of Los Angeles with little to no success — but when she suspects her long-distance girlfriend of moving on and beginning a new romance without telling her, she packs up and heads home to Portland on a mission to save (or, hold hostage) her flailing relationship. Chaos ensues. Featuring an all-star supporting cast including Manny Jacinto, Chelsea Peretti, Margaret Cho, and more, Utt’s spiky sophomore feature crafts incisive cringe comedy from the main character syndrome gripping our self-centered times while offering redemption in the form of acceptance for the things we cannot change.

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Premiere Status: US
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