Hippo
- Friday, Nov 29, 2024, 7:00pm
- Saturday, Nov 30, 2024, 2:00pm
- Sunday, Dec 1, 2024, 7:15pm
- Monday, Dec 2, 2024, 9:15pm
- Tuesday, Dec 3, 2024, 7:00pm
- Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024, 9:15pm
HIPPO examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo (Kimball Farley), a video-game addicted teenager, and Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger), a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus. Like the Ancient Greek Aphrodite, Buttercup’s love is unrequited by a brother who prefers to indulge the art of war and chaos. The result is a hormone-fueled, tragicomic waking nightmare that must be seen to be believed. Executive produced by David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and Jody Hill.
“[Director] Rapaport plays with topics that would make even the most hardened film fan blush… It’s a mind f**k of a movie, filled with uncomfortable laughs, ludicrous characters, and if that wasn’t enough, it is topped off with a soupçon of narration from the one and only Eric Roberts. Hippo is America’s answer to Dogtooth, and it’s wonderful.” J Hurtado, ScreenAnarchy
“A transfixing oddity… not afraid to push buttons of weirdness.” Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
“Hippo’s strange and dark humor is quintessential viewing and a wonderful reminder of why we all got into indie filmmaking in the first place… a brilliant feature debut.” David Gordon Green