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      Released Dec 1, 2023 1h 44m Drama TRAILER for The Sweet East: Trailer 1 List The Sweet East: Trailer 1 The Sweet East: Trailer 1 1:38 View more videos
      80% Tomatometer 60 Reviews 53% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered May 28 Buy Now

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      A consistently amusing satire of modern American life, The Sweet East is so engaging from moment to moment that it's easy to forgive its somewhat hazy thesis.

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      Catherine Wheatley Sight & Sound The Sweet East reveals itself as an undeniably exhilarating ride, surreal and satirical, and not quite of this world. Apr 2, 2024 Full Review Kevin Maher Times (UK) Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri are the big draws in this ramshackle American satire that’s equal parts punk swagger and lazy repetition. Rated: 2/5 Apr 1, 2024 Full Review Wendy Ide Observer (UK) For all its to-the-moment social commentary, the film has roots in the anarchistic, surrealist 60s: Lillian could be a direct descendant of minxy troublemakers Marie I and Marie II from Věra Chytilová’s Daisies, reimagined for the TikTok generation. Rated: 3/5 Mar 31, 2024 Full Review Simon Miraudo Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1) A darkly nihilistic, picaresque road movie in which a disaffected teenager flits between extremist groups (of varying organisational capacity), and blankly welcomes the end of the American era. So, you know, a comedy. Rated: 3.5/5 May 17, 2024 Full Review David Griffiths Subculture Entertainment One of the most important films of 2024. Not only is it a biting snapshot of modern day America but also introduces us to a director that is going to far and a leading lady that is about to become a star. Rated: 5/5 May 12, 2024 Full Review Lisa Nystrom FILMINK (Australia) Provocative, surreal, and wandering seemingly without purpose, The Sweet East feels like an uncomfortable dream you can’t quite shake after waking. Rated: 15/20 Apr 23, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Ghederick Eshmont The film is very fun & compelling in the first 45mins…but the final hour is a bit of a slog. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/24 Full Review Sal L The Sweet East wants to be as experimental as possible for an indie project, but in the end, it will only test your patience as it goes on. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/08/24 Full Review Nefasto R Funny, weird, situation-to-situation kind of coming-of-age. Enjoyable. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/02/24 Full Review Jamie C I really wanted to like it. The cast are great but it just got too absurd and repetitive for my tastes. The girl just keeps getting captured! It's trying to be engaging , and it nearly worked but I just couldn't care at all about any of them. I do want movies like this to keep being made as they are the ones that effect me most but this one just didn't hit me in the way I wanted it to. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review Toby L Wild and absurd in places, but reflecting the wild and absurd times we live in. Fantastic acting, writing and cinematography. The most unique film I've seen this year when even most independent films seem similar lately. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review Helene C Loved it. Laughed out loud more than a few times, the dialogue is so well written. Talia Ryder is magnetic. Loved the music, costumes... Simon Rex needs to be in a million more movies.. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
      Director
      Sean Price Williams
      Screenwriter
      Nick Pinkerton
      Distributor
      Utopia
      Production Co
      Base 12 Productions, Marathon Films
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 1, 2023, Limited
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $331.9K
      Runtime
      1h 44m
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