Hippo (2025)
- Wed, Mar 19
Director: Mark H. Rapaport Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Eliza Roberts, Eric Roberts, Jesse Pimentel, Kimball Farley, Lilla Kizlinger
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
“An unholy fusion of A Clockwork Orange and Napoleon Dynamite.” – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
Lead actor Kimball Farley will participate in a q&a session following the 7:00pm screening on March 19!
Hippo examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video-game addicted teenager and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus. Like the Ancient Greek Aphrodite, Buttercup’s love is unrequited by a brother who prefers to indulge the art of war and chaos. The result is a hormone-fueled, tragicomic waking nightmare that must be seen to be believed.
About the filmmaker:
Mark is a filmmaker and founder of the production company, Kinematics. His feature directorial debut, Hippo, premiered in competition at Fantasia in 2023 and will be released theatrically in November 2024. He also acted in and produced The Scary of Sixty-First, which won Best First Feature at Berlin in 2021.
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