Some of the characters - a drunken pedestrian, a homeless dog - feel too obviously manufactured, and the trip often feels disjointed. The ground’s-eye view of the unglamorous city includes a close encounter with a tranny hooker (Vitta Quinn) and a quick stop at a porn shoot in the Valley (Gale Harold plays the multitasking “actor”).
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The director trusts a lot of his story to landscape and language, but the odyssey also involves a series of encounters, beginning with the brief and very funny appearance of a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog (film publicist Mickey Cottrell). Scott’s Michael is more ready than he realizes to step outside his writerly seclusion, and Bissonnette’s Tobey has the soulfulness and unreliability of a character Steve Buscemi might play. The two leads are not physically like brothers, but they bring a shared sense of aggrieved alertness to their roles. Without resorting to laborious backstory or melodrama, Bissonnette and his talented actors convey just enough of the characters’ upbringing and family dynamics.
As they crisscross from Echo Park to the Hollywood Hills to Glendale and Long Beach, their sharp banter moves from sibling crossfire to philosophical musings and back again. Tobey and Michael, outsiders in different ways, communicate via sardonic humor and deadpan barbs.
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