The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (THE FLORIDA PROJECT, TANGERINE), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, RED ROCKET is a darkly funny and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.

Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex-porn star Mikey Saber (Rex) decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop. With Suzanna Son, Bree Elrod.

"I miss quieter movies with their slow-build character studies. Watching director Sean Baker's "Red Rocket," a portrait of fictional aging porn actor Mikey Saber (Simon Rex), was a reminder of how great those can be." (Buzzfeed)

"A movie that is outrageously fun, savagely smart, brightly satirical, and ultimately haunting." (Mashable)

"This is an admirable work centering on a man who has likely never done an admirable thing in his entire rotten life." (Chicago Sun-Times)

"[A]deliriously funny and deviously satirical new comedy about a very specific, finely sketched specimen of parasitic American hustler." (AV Club)

Writer-director Sean Baker will be joining us live via Skype following the screening of RED ROCKET on Thursday, February 24. Sean will be joining us in-between films (live via the interwebs!) to talk about his work, and to answer your questions.

Thursday, February 24
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm
Advance tickets $13 | $13 at the door

RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, 2021 / 130 mins / 18A) Mikey Saber -- charismatic con man and washed-up porn star -- plots his return to the big time from small-town Texas in this story of an American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.