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To many people around the world, America remains a semi-mythical land where dreams might come true. 'Go west, young man,' they say, and for a boy like Potato (Hersh Powers), who is just beginning to realise that he might by attracted to men, the desire to get away from the east is particularly strong. His single mother is terrified that he'll be conscripted into the Russian army, where terrible things will happen to him, so she starts looking around for a boyfriend who has more to offer them than a colour TV - ideally, a new life in the promised land.

Flash forward ten years and she (now played by Marya Sea Kaminski) and Potato (now played by Tyler Bocock) are living in a comfortable suburban house in sunny California with new husband/stepfather John (Dan Lauria). They no longer want for material things...

Potato Dreams of America Review — Potato Dreams of America (2021) Film Review from the 28th Annual South By Southwest Film Festival, a movie directed by Wes Hurley, and featuring Marya Sea Kaminski, Dan Lauria, Tyler Bocock, Lea DeLaria, Sera Barbieri, Hersh Powers, Jonathan Bennett, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Lauren Tewes, [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Potato Dreams Of America: A Campy Gay Auto-Biopic That Can’t Quite Connect Its Dots [SXSW 2021]...