Flatters: Review. By Joe Muldoon.
It’s a well-known fact that when we’re lonely, the best course of action is to hit the internet and scour dating sites to find perfect strangers to date. Or, even better, Craigslist, a haven of safety and normalcy. At least, Lenny (Doug Wyckoff) seems to think so when communicating through his internal monologue, seeking a partner with whom he can travel to the edge of the world and share his trailer park lifestyle.
And as luck has it, Lenny happens upon Georgia (Teresa Wyckoff), a woman seeking a partner with whom she can travel to the very end of the earth. Only, in a deliciously comical twist of fate, Lenny and Georgia’s ideas of travelling to the edge of the world are rather different, Lenny’s more metaphorical and Georgia’s concerningly literal.
And with this miscommunication, their two worlds (one of which being flat) collide; Georgia is a bonafide flat earther nut, and even a published pundit one at that – much to Lenny’s unease. But love seemingly prevails! Until it doesn’t…
Written by Doug Wyckoff himself and directed by Dennis Flippin (who also pulls producer-editor-cinematographer duty), Flatters is a light-hearted and impressively well-shot little internet-era romance, an ode to the wacky worlds with which we may unintentionally collide and intersect.
With a rather spontaneously explosive finale and an amusing little foray into the rabbit hole of flat earth conspiracies, there’s plenty to be entertained by. And there’s also a fun reminder about online dating; opposites may attract, but Craigslist attracts flat-out lunacy.
By Joe Muldoon.
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