Desert Blue

United States

1998

90 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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EXEC Marc Butan, Leanna Creel, Kip Hagopian

PROD Michael Burns, Nadia Leonelli, Andrea Sperling

CAST Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, John Heard, Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Sara Gilbert, Ethan Suplee, Peter Sarsgaard, Lee Holmes, Daniel von Bargen, Aunjanue Ellis, Isidra Vega, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Ironside, Rene Rivera, Liev Schreiber, Fred Schneider, MacDaddy Beefcake, Chris Gannon, Don Leslie

SOUND Margaret Crimmins, Paul Hsu

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Rotterdam, SXSW (Opening Night)

Synopsis

In a small town on the edge of the desert, Blue wants to complete his father’s dream of building a water slide. The problem is water rights, which have been sewn up by the Empire Cola Company and who try to buy off the townspeople’s discontent with free soda. When an Empire truck crashes and creates a toxic spill, the town is quarantined. A pretty TV star and her professor father are stuck there for the duration, and link up with Blue and an oddball assortment of locals as the town faces off with the company. –inbaseline.com