PASSENGER SIDE
Tue 3rd August | 8:30pm | Dendy Opera Quays
Dir: Matthew Bissonnette, Canada, 2009, 85 min
Cast: Adam Scott, Joel Bissonnette, Robin Tunney
In this rock music road movie, Two-Lane Blacktop meets My Dinner with Andre & American Graffiti.
Two brothers spend the day driving around LA in a beat up 1975 BMW looking for the meaning in their lives, or cheap street drugs, depending on whom you believe. Along the way the apparently random pit stops and encounters begin to bring the day trip into focus, right up until its unexpected destination.
Passenger Side is an inspired follow-up to Matt Bissonnette’s Who Loves The Sun (PW 2007). Beneath the slackers’ banter, expertly written and delivered, lies a bittersweet story about the paths our messy lives can take. Like a friend’s mixtape, it takes you on a subtle narrative journey, by turns hilarious, surprising and poignant.
“A thinking man’s Judd Apatow flick… Literate, amusing, and unexpectedly moving.” - L.A. Weekly
