Emergency (2022)

Jack and I liked a lot this comedy/thriller about college boys who aim to be the first Black kids to attend seven frat parties in one night. And then s*** happens. RJ Cyler and Donald Elise Watkins play best friends with different approaches to life and Sebastian Chacon joins them later in the first act. And then Sabrina Carpenter gets into the mix. I don't want to say much more.

Director Carey Williams and writer K.D. Dávila fleshed out their 2018 twelve minute multi-award winning short of the same name into this feature, which is the winner or nominee of a dozen festival awards so far.

I can't find the original music by Rene G. Boscio online, but imdb lists 22 of the movie's songs and this site allows you to play some of them, but beware of spoilers in the text.

Cyler was last blogged for playing Earl in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Watkins (who recently added his middle name to his professional credits) has a number of gigs in his resume and Chacon's affable drummer in ten episodes of Daisy Jones and the Six is but one of his many roles so far. Carpenter's face looks familiar to me, but after perusing her imdb page, I don't know why.

This is Williams' second feature after a number of shorts and TV episodes and Dávila makes her feature debut, while Boscio has scored fifteen other features and many shorts.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics aren't panicking, with a 92% average, while its audiences are a bit scared at 73. One google reviewer commented that only a racist would dislike this movie. Made for Amazon, it is available on Prime with a subscription and we watched it on May 30. Since the Amazon search isn't easy, here's the link.