Synopsis
In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
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Cast
- Imogen PootsAli
- Callum TurnerEvan
- Callum Keith RennieRobert
- Frank OultonBone
- Shane DalyMick
- Karen LeBlancSondra
- Pedro SalvínSean
- Manuel Rodriguez-SaenzGambler
- Raven StewartCassie
- Jai Jai JonesRichard
Recommendations
- 80
L.A. Weekly
In Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes, Imogen Poots gives a performance of such multifaceted distinction that it might be hard to believe you’re watching the same actress from frame to frame. - 75
Movie Nation
Director de Fontenay has a great eye for detail — filling Mobile Homes with inside cock-fighting particulars and manufactured housing factory work, roadhouses and after hours “clubs” where the chicken fighting takes place. - 60
Los Angeles Times
While the story’s a little shaky, Poots is outstanding; and de Fontenay has a terrific eye for the details of a drifter’s life, shuffling from hovel to hovel, never able to scrape up enough cash to sleep comfortably. - 60
Screen Daily
The feature debut of Vladimir De Fontenay is an accomplished piece with a committed central performance from Imogen Poots, but the emotional impact is lessened by an air of predictability and the sense that every bit of fresh hope is destined to end in disappointment. - 58
The Playlist
It’s a very watchable — if occasionally frustrating— first effort, but one hopes that the director will carve out more original territory with his second film, regardless of where he settles. - 50
The New York Times
This is an atmospheric, well-acted film that leaves us mostly cold. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The result is a metaphor run amok, with a limp plot, implausible action and three barely sketched characters played drearily. - 50
RogerEbert.com
There’s a big meaning to all of this, and yet the movie can’t eloquently express it, even though the metaphor is in the title.
