Red Rocket

"Everything's bigger in Texas."

2021 2h 10m EN

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6.8

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★6.8TMDB · 672

ComedyDrama

Synopsis

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After hitting rock bottom in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber returns to his hometown in Texas to stay with his estranged wife and mother-in-law. Just as tensions begin to ease, he becomes infatuated with a young doughnut shop worker named Strawberry.

“Everything's bigger in Texas.”

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Cast

Simon Rex
Mikey
Suzanna Son
Strawberry
Bree Elrod
Lexi
Ethan Darbone
Lonnie
Brenda Deiss
Lil
Judy Hill
Leondria
Brittney Rodriguez
June
Marlon Lambert
Ernesto

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sean Baker
Writers: Chris Bergoch, Sean Baker
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 7

MONEY

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Shot for just $1.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 7

ERA

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Released 5 years ago.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sean Baker, shot by Drew Daniels. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Sean Baker shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Simon Rex and Suzanna Son and Bree Elrod carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Everything's bigger in Texas.".

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt13453006 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sean Baker directs. Drew Daniels behind the camera. Sean Baker cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $1.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Released 5 years ago.
3Directed by Sean Baker, shot by Drew Daniels. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Sean Baker shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Simon Rex and Suzanna Son and Bree Elrod carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Everything's bigger in Texas.".
7IMDB entry: tt13453006 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 26 themes, including "texas", "narcissism", "relationship problems", "porn star".

The technical file

Cinematography: Drew Daniels
Editing: Sean Baker
Production design: Stephonik Youth
Makeup / hair: Samantha Quan
VFX supervisor: John J. Budion
Sound: Andy Hay
Runtime: 130 min · 2h 10m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,100,000
Box office: $2,200,000
Return: 200% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Red Rocket (2021)

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CinemaSerf2022-04-04
★ 6/10
Simon Rex is "Mikey", a down on his luck former porn star who has to return to live with his unwelcoming ex wife "Lexi" (Bree Elrod) and her mother "Lil" (Brenda Deiss). He sleeps on their couch, can't get a job, so ends up dealing dope and that's when he meets the young - and innocent - "Strawberry" (Suzanna Son) who is working at a doughnut shop. He turns on all his charms and soon enough they decide that they are going to elope with $3,000 of his ill-gotten gains. Well, that's their plan anyway, Of course, his ex; her mother and the local drugs queenpin don't quite approve. At times it's quite niftily paced with quite a few laughs, but I found the plot to be really quite thin and predictable as the thing went on. As an observational piece on the sort of trailer-park existence in rural Texas, it is probably quite authentic, but it just didn't do much for me. Over two hours was just far too long to sustain the theme, and aside from quite an engagingly quirky effort from Deiss, I felt this was another film that could happily wait for it's small screen release before watching it.
badelf2026-05-01
★ 4/10
This is a decently made soft-porn movie that suffers from lack of character development and from a narrative that appears to be going somewhere only to trip over it's own feet at the end and die in pointlessness.