An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy, Ray Tuckby, with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA. After encouragement from a stranger whom he happens upon, Ray begins to dream again. He sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and finally takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron.
Acting
Jonah Hill's pre-fame unhinged sibling energy
Production
Trona, CA: a real hellscape that becomes character
Director
Hart Bochner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Trona, California is a real mining town so desolate it makes the film look understated. Director Hart Bochner discovered it while location scouting and rewrote the script around its apocalyptic visuals.
This bombed so hard it became a secret handshake for Walsh completionists and early Melissa McCarthy archaeologists hunting her pre-Bridesmaids crumbs.
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