CUSP

[Opens Nov. 12 in theaters, plays Nov. 26 on Showtime, and played as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28.] Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt's poignant, award-winning, revealing, heartbreaking, coming-of-age, down-to-earth, bittersweet, vérité, 83-minute documentary that focuses on three rebellious, outspoken, pot-smoking, drug-using, free-spirited, 16-year-old high school students, Brittney, Aaloni, and Autumn, wiling away the summer in a small town in Texas partying, drinking, vaping, and fornicating while on the verge of adulthood as they struggle with friendships, romantic relationships, and just plain growing up amidst various kinds of violence in a male-dominated society.
|
|
|