By Andy Crump
Directed by Chris Skotchdopole; written by Chris Skotchdopole, Larry Fessenden, & Rigo Garay; starring John Speredakos, Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, & Lorraine Farris
The last eight years of American political cinema contains its share of movies adapted from history and headlines, with little mystery about intent left to the imagination. Chris Skotchdopole’s unhinged debut Crumb Catcherheads the opposite direction: the film doesn’t betray itself by declaring outright what, or who, it’s “about.” You have to work that out yourself.
Honeymooners Shane (Rigo Garay) and Leah (Ella Rae Peck), plagued by implied, stewing tensions, put their friction on pause when their rental house is called on by uninvited guests: John (John Speredakos), a waiter at their wedding reception, and his wife, Rose (Lorraine Farris). They’ve stalked the newlyweds to offer them a once in a lifetime opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the next consumer craze — or else. Crumb Catcher is a nail-biting ode to American failure, where side-hustle-and-grind entrepreneurship synthesizes with the insecurities wrought by our bootstraps mentality; it’s a chiller about entitlements and unearned outrage that’s attuned to our times through black comic plotting.
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