Candy Mountain

Director	Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer
Year	1987
Country	Canada, France, Switzerland
Runtime	1h 31m
Language	English
Format	DCP
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Synopsis

“CANDY MOUNTAIN … seems to be a small, quirky film, but it easily assumes the weight, ambition, and success that many larger films aim for and miss.” —The New York Times “A comedy with blood on its mouth; a romance with a knife in its heart. It’s also an action movie about running nowhere and a musical about the music no one hears. Writer-director Rudy Wurlitzer and co-director Robert Frank take these paradoxes and play with them gently, soberly, turning them into fierce poetry … It’s almost a little masterpiece: morally brave, beautifully measured, funny, sad, and powerful. With quiet skill, it tears open and subverts some glittery fantasies of the American dream.” —The Los Angeles Times

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