Freaks

 Freaks 2018

• Director: Zack Lipovsky and Adam B Stein
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Lexy Kolker, Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Emile Hirsch – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Taking Woodstock, Milk, Into the Wild, Third Rock from the Sun
• Bruce Dern – The Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Silent Running, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, The Wild Angels, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, TV series
• Grace Park – Battlestar Galactica
• Why? The title.
• Seen: 15 October 2021.      

       Seven-year-old Chloe (Kolker) and her dad (Hirsch) live in strict paranoid isolation and must practice being normal because they’re not. She rebels and sneaks outside to the Snow Cone Man (Dern) who has secrets to reveal to her.

       Is it all real? A dream? Hallucination?

       What an odd mishmash of a film. But the cast is good and it’s interesting. Hal liked it more than I did.

      3* of 5