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Wah Do Dem (2009)
Director: Sam Fleischner, Ben Chace
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From Time Out Online
When twenty-something, travelling Brooklynite (Bones) misses his cruise-ship home, he finds Jamaica’s ‘one love’ is in short supply. Recently dumped by Norah Jones and now dumped-on by American and Caribbean cultures alike, his journey back to the embassy is a slacker’s odyssey of tropical fish, trippy-pills, and a Patois-jammin’ soundtrack. Emerging filmmakers Chance and Fleischner offer a laid-back and eclectic series of locations to hang-out in leading to a film that is more a mumblecore chill-out session than a genre-revving road-trip. Sure, the film doesn’t go anywhere particularly momentous, but it’s an enjoyable homage to the Obamarama zeitgeist that says ‘things-can-only-get-better’.Author: India Bourke
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Sam Fleischner, Ben Chace
Cast: Sean Bones, Norah Jones, Kevin Bewersdorf
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 76 mins
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