Kendra and Beth
[Plays 5/8 at 7 p.m. and 5/18 at 9:30 p.m. as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] After a shy, eccentric, bored sausage company warehouse employee (Kate Lyn Sheil), who supports her ill, widowed, Julia-Roberts-obsessed mother (Catherine Curtin) and 36-year-old, Arby's-loving, wannabe-artist brother (Whitmer Thomas) in a small Midwestern town, meets a charismatic, free-spirited, vaping waitress (Eleanore Pienta), whose father is in prison and her mother is an alcoholic, in Dean Peterson's dark, quirky, down-to-earth, realistic, unpredictable, 86-minute, 2021 comedy, it creates a stir in her mundane life, and when her new friend begins dating a worker (Matt Bailey), her jealousy threatens their friendship.
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