Greener Grass
Year: 2018
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Run Time:
98 minutes
On a whim, Jill gives her baby to her neighbor, Lisa. When Jill’s other child turns into a dog after falling into their pool, she wants the baby back, but Lisa refuses. And just who is the killer of the local yoga teacher stalking them? Welcome to the brace-wearing, golf-cart driving, pastel insanity of a suburbia that could only exist in a subdivision of hell. How black is the outrageous humor of GREENER GRASS? Close your eyes and plunge your head into a bottle of ink. Eschewing all decorum and boundaries, this insanely funny satire shreds marriage, children, school, television, family photos, and pretty much everything else America holds sacred. Played with deadpan brilliance by an awesome cast, GREENER GRASS grows more inappropriate, unhinged, and surreal by the frame. Assuming the mantle of John Waters, these filmmakers invert decency so often that laughing is all you can do. Most subversively, the more deliciously deranged the film becomes, the more uncomfortably familiar it seems. Prepare to howl with laughter, moral core notwithstanding. —C.R.
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Directors
Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe are an award-winning writing and directing team based in Los Angeles. Both veteran performers at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, DeBoer and Luebbe partnered in 2015 and formed Gulp Splash Productions. GREENER GRASS premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and is based on their award-winning short film by the same name. DeBoer and Luebbe recently directed two episodes of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything, sold a television pilot to IFC, and have written and produced three short films that have appeared in over 70 film festivals worldwide.
Filmography
GREENER GRASS (2018)
Producer
Natalie Metzger
Screenwriting
Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Cinematography
Lowell A. Meyer
Editing
Taylor Gianotas
Principal Cast
Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D'Arcy Carden, Janicza Bravo, Dot-Marie Jones
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