Bombay Beach (2011)

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Country: USA
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Musical
Release: 2011-10-14
Director: Alma Har’el
Writers: N/A
Language: English
Stars: N/A
Runtime: 80 min
Awards: 2 wins & 4 nominations
AKA: Bombay Beach , Бомбейский пляж (Russian Federation) , Bombay Beach (United States of America) , Bombay Beach (United Kingdom)
Plot: Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises, in a gently hypnotic style that questions whether they are a product of their world or if their world is a construct of their own imaginations.
IMDB:tt1758576