Jack and I enjoyed this dark comedy about a timid woman cutting loose and getting in over her head after her house is robbed. Melanie Lynskey is wonderful as the frustrated Ruth and Elijah Wood equally good as the equally awkward Tony (Lynskey was last blogged for Little Boxes, and after I wrote about Wood in 9 he was in Celeste and Jesse Forever, 49 episodes of Wilfred, and much more). We streamed it on Netflix last week.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January 2017, it was directed and written by Macon Blair (new to me) who has a cameo as the guy at the bar who makes Ruth's day just a little worse.
There are twenty songs listed on imdb, some of which can be streamed on the spotify playlist, which includes quite a few tracks by the director/writer's brothers Brooke and Will Blair.
Don't watch this late at night because there is some grisly violence. Critics, averaging 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, are more at home with this movie than its audiences, averaging 77. It's pretty good.
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