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Red Rocket

Red Rocket

  • Status: Released
  • 10-12-2021
  • Runtime: 130 min
  • Score: 6.8
  • Vote count: 501

Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop.

Simon Rex

Mikey

Suzanna Son

Strawberry

Bree Elrod

Lexi

Ethan Darbone

Lonnie

Brenda Deiss

Lil

Judy Hill

Leondria

Brittney Rodriguez

June

Marlon Lambert

Ernesto

Vickie Pearce

Manager #1

Bashir Abboud

Manager #2

Kevin Cavanaugh

Manager #3

Caressa Garza

Manager #4

Melary Jones

Leondria's Friend #1

Najeeb Hassan

Quick Stop Clerk

Leigh Ann Welch

Leondria's Friend #2

Debra Johnson

Yard Sale Seller

Alex Michell

Dancer #1

Curt Smith

Club DJ

Shih-Ching Tsou

Ms. Phan

Andrew Carter

Hungry Hard Hat #1

Stanley Buffington

Hungry Hard Hat #2

Daniel Gonzalez

Hungry Hard Hat #3

Robert Gonzales

Hungry Hard Hat #4

Zachary Kemp

Hungry Hard Hat #5

Efrain Avendaño

Hungry Hard Hat #6

Shawn Harper

Hungry Hard Hat #7

David Maxwell

Lonnie's Dad

Nate Venz

Buff Veteran

Anthony Carvelli

Blonde Veteran

Parker Bigham

Nash

Brandy Kirl

Nash's Mother

Dustin Hart

Nash's Father

Allison Fuller

Homeowner

Dimitri Manetas

Club Owner

Roza Kastis

Club Worker

Alayna Polk

Dancer #2

Karren Karagulian

Arash (voice)

Darinda Fuller

Interviewee

Lindsey Fuller

Studio Reporter

Elisa Silva

Reporter

Gary Fuller

Attorney

Seward B. Lott

June's Friend 'B'

Mason Shortland

Marcus - Store Patron (uncredited)

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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.