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- 2020
- TV-14
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- 1 h 25 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Factory 25
- 1 h 25 m
Summary A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.
Directed By: Tyler Taormina
Written By: Eric Berger, Tyler Taormina
- 2020
- TV-14
- Factory 25
- 1 h 25 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Factory 25
- 1 h 25 m
Ham on Rye
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2.4
Summary A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.
Directed By: Tyler Taormina
Written By: Eric Berger, Tyler Taormina
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Generally Favorable
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Ham on Rye is not obviously political, but it is also deeply political, pointing out, in lazy, absurdist, carelessly clever frames a deep-set American wrongness that was quietly murmuring away long before the current blowhard moment, and that will continue long after.
The film’s purposeful archness challenges the sentimentality that marks many a film and real-life ceremony.
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The film never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist coming-of-age drama but there is something else going on.
Taormina purposefully dresses his cast and designs their environment in a way that throws them into a sort of temporal never-never land. He achieves a number of other startling effects in this impressive movie, which sheds its naturalism slowly as it embraces a surrealism that’s both disquieting and poignant.
While the narrative hardly goes into the fully unhinged direction it teases, it’s pleasantly askew and always marching to its own strange and, slightly off, beat.
Ham on Rye will frustrate literal-minded audiences, but it’s a work of gentle, genuine American surrealism — a lo-fi love song to those left behind by character and chance.
Quiet and carefully made but cryptic, it relies on the viewer to complete its metaphors.
Production Company
Tago Clearing Film Studio,
Omnes Films
Release Date Oct 23, 2020
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline It's the most important day of your life, try not to think about it.
Awards
New Hampshire Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
