The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.
A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.
Director:
Kogonada
Stars:
John Cho,
Haley Lu Richardson,
Parker Posey
Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood as him, who asks him to look after her cat while on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
Lisa is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', but as general manager at Double Whammies, she's come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?Written by
Magnolia Pictures
The restaurant used for the fictitious Double Whammies is across the street from a restaurant called Twin Peaks--a sports bar with scantily-dressed women, like Double Whammies itself. See more »
Quotes
Gary, Impatient:
You can shake that thing someplace else. I'm just here for the burger and the fight.
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It's one of those offbeat films you can just watch and enjoy without anything special to recommend it. A day in the life of a sports bar manager, under stress and personal problems, with some laughs along the way. Only real message it gives is man or I should say women management is the true measure of how good a manager and business is.
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It's one of those offbeat films you can just watch and enjoy without anything special to recommend it. A day in the life of a sports bar manager, under stress and personal problems, with some laughs along the way. Only real message it gives is man or I should say women management is the true measure of how good a manager and business is.