The African Desperate
“Where do broken hearts go? Can they go home?”
It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.
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Cast
21 people
Diamond Stingily
Palace
Erin Leland
Hannah
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Cammisa Buerhaus
Aidan
Also in
Scoops Of Glory
Motherland
Aaron Bobrow
Ezra
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Ruby McCollister
Portia
Known for
The Scary of Sixty-First
Uncle Peckerhead
Erin Meuchner
Fern
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Brent David Freaney
Liam
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Rob Franklin
Akin
Matt Creed
HotJake
Grover Whitmore III
Kieran
Known for
Hacks
Elijah Townsend
Dusty
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Emir West
Bex
Martine Syms Director · Rocket Caleshu Screenplay Daisy Zhou Cinematographer
United States release September 16, 2022 · Produced in United States
Production
Ways & Means
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Netherlands · January 26, 2022
Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
United States · September 16, 2022
Limited theatrical · New York City
United States · October 21, 2022
Digital
United States
April 30, 2022 · Premiere · New Directors/New Films Festival
Argentina
October 21, 2022 · Digital
Australia
August 13, 2022 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
France
October 21, 2022 · Theatrical
Germany
October 21, 2022 · Digital
United Kingdom
October 13, 2022 · Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
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