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- 2023
- TV-MA
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- 2023
- TV-MA
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Summary Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
Directed By: Billy Luther
- 2023
- TV-MA
- ARRAY Releasing
- 1 h 23 m
- 2023
- TV-MA
- ARRAY Releasing
- 1 h 23 m
Frybread Face and Me
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Summary Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
Directed By: Billy Luther
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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From the careful casting of Navajo actors — vital not only to representation but when it comes to speaking the language — to its honest look into rez life without any Hollywood spin, Frybread Face and Me isn't just a joy to watch but spells a bright future for Luther after this narrative feature debut.
If you have been fiending all year for a quality drama that shares a different world, then Frybread Face and Me is what you have been waiting for. Luther’s deft screenplay ably gets across a lot of complicated family business in just a few strokes.
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Luther, who identifies as gay, never explicitly assigns labels to these young characters, which makes perfect sense in a story that openly embraces freedom and tenderness. Here’s hoping for many more films from this sensitive, nuanced talent.
Pickles in a bag, runaway sheep, dusty roads, the same movie over and over until the tape wears out—these are the sense memories that remind the filmmaker who he is and where he comes from. To share it with the world in this way is an act of profound generosity and love.
It’s 1990 and a summer that initially smacks of exile and punishment becomes one of discovery — self-discovery to be sure, but also cultural and familial.
The movie is overfamiliar and earnest, but you can’t accuse it of not being heartfelt.
The film is playing with familiar tropes along a formulaic path, but it’s simply too endearing to dismiss outright.
Production Company
BCD Travel,
Fit Via Vi Film Productions,
Good Gravy Films,
Indion Entertainment Group,
MACRO,
REI Co-op Studios,
River Road Entertainment,
The Sundance Screenwriters' Lab,
World of Wonder Productions
Release Date Nov 24, 2023
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 2 Nominations
Mill Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
GLAAD Media Awards
• 1 Nomination
