Greener Grass
Directed by Jocelyn DeBoe, Dawn Luebbe
Greener Grass' is a hilariously deadpan hellscape of competitive suburbia with a boldly stylised absurdist chain of events that unfurls with increasing fervour after one soccer mom gifts another her infant daughter just to be polite. Writers, directors and stars Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe have created a unique comedy that is destined to be a cult classic. "It's like Wes Anderson taking on a Black Mirror instalment...or David Lynch suddenly directing an episode of Desperate Housewives" - Indiewire
Greener Grass' is a hilariously deadpan hellscape of competitive suburbia with a boldly stylised absurdist chain of events that unfurls with increasing fervour after one soccer mom gifts another her infant daughter just to be polite.
Cast: Jocelyn DeBoe, Dawn Luebbe
Member Reviews
If you enjoy the first ten minutes, you'll probably enjoy the rest of the film. I did not. But I can see what they were going for, and it isn't irredeemably bad.
This is absurdist comedy done well. So many very funny moments! I’ll give it another watch soon and I rarely do that.
There's a kernel of something really great in here but I don't know if the writers quite know what they were trying to achieve. It's captivating, I'll give it that much. Deeply unhinged but it follows it's own bizarre logic. And it nails the atmosphere its trying to satirize. I just don't think it knows what it's trying to say and the plot basically doesn't resolve at all
It's like my partner's middle class white suburban family on steroids. The aesthetics are great and the scenarios strange. However, I just couldn't get it to hold my attention enough to watch it all in one go. It looks like it had it's start as a short film, and I think it would probably be a better watch if it was condensed down to less than an hour. Overall, it's quirky and if you've got a better attention span than I have, you'll be fine.
I can't help but feel that the Stepford wives sort of genre is a bit drained at the moment after "Don't worry Darling" and horror just seeming to want to move away from middle-class Hellscapes, but this was fun...maybe not all that horrific but it was fun.