![]() Running at a brisk 91 minutes, "Tater Tot" is a streamlined and well-paced character drama. to South Dakota and what led him to live alone on a ranch. Instead of emphasizing their differences, "Tater Tot" leverages the contrasting surface traits into character friction, which only serves the story which then explores the similarities Andie and Erwin share - and what brought her from L.A. Their initial character differences are drastic - but superficial. Co-leads Rothe and Wilder are a perfectly mismatched pair that prove to be two equally lost souls. "Tater Tot" resists the easy out of reducing either Andie or Erwin into broad caricatures - she's not a vapid Angelino and he's not a country bumpkin. ![]() ![]() And the solitary and remote ranch is every bit a tertiary character, essentially forcing the polar opposite Andie and Erwin to bristle in their co-existence, forced into the close quarters of the small rambler without wifi or air conditioning, as if they are alone on an island, far from the nearest highway. He infuses the fish-out-of-water premise with two deeply human and hurt souls, whose rudderless existences have quite accidentally crossed paths. Writer-director Andrew Kightlinger has crafted an intimate, character-rooted drama set against a vivid Dakota backdrop. In short: Young Los Angeles millennial Andie ( Jessica Rothe, "Happy Death Day") stays with her quiet, drunken uncle Erwin (Bates Wilder) on his South Dakota ranch. A pair of stand-out lead performances anchored by a nuanced screenplay highlight the melancholic and deliberately-paced indie drama " Tater Tot & Patton" (which screened at the 2018 Beloit International Film Festival).
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