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If good entertainment takes your emotions for a walk, then American Dreamer is the Olympic steeplechase — or the 400 meter hurdles, if the hurdles were on fire.
Overwrought with queasy panic, Derrick Borte's crime thriller arrived in theaters for a limited release last week to muted fanfare. The film chronicles the dangerous unraveling of one man against the backdrop of an unforgiving city, similar to the Safdie brothers' underappreciated Good Time. It's an uncomfortable watch, but worth every minute.
Jim Gaffigan (aka comedy's favorite father of five) stars as Cam, a family man-turned-kidnapper. Laid off from his job as a tech specialist, Cam is introduced as an unlucky victim of a churning economy, forced to take on the thankless job of rideshare driving to pay alimony and child support to his ex-wife. Read more...
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