{"id":15185,"date":"2024-05-24T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/2024\/laroy\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:24:23","slug":"laroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/2024\/en\/laroy\/","title":{"rendered":"LAROY"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAROY<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival, 2023<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Original language: <\/b>English<\/span><\/p>\n

Subtitles: <\/b>Romanian<\/span><\/p>\n

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Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Shane ATKINSON<\/span><\/p>\n

Country<\/b>: US, France<\/span><\/p>\n

Year of production<\/b>:<\/span> 2023<\/span><\/p>\n

Length<\/b>:<\/span> 110 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre<\/b>: comedy, crime, thriller<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Ray Jepsen (John Magaro) is a humble co-owner of a hardware store who still can\u2019t believe he managed to marry local beauty queen Stacy-Lynn. When his private investigator friend, Skip (Steve Zahn), reveals to Ray that Stacy-Lynn is having an affair, Ray decides to kill himself. He secures a gun and goes to a seedy motel parking lot to do the deed, but before he can pull the trigger, he is mistaken by a stranger for a low-rent hitman (a sinister Dylan Baker) and given an envelope full of cash and an address. Desperate to win back his self-respect and his wife, Ray
\ndecides to take the job \u2014 but soon wishes he had just killed himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>