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Sundance Film Festival 2025: Day 2 capsules
Omaha, The Librarians, Andre Is an Idiot, Ricky, GEN_, Prime Minister, One to One: John & Yoko
(Reviews by Scott Renshaw except where noted) Omaha **1/2 [U.S. Dramatic] Well-acted, well-meaning miserabilism is still miserabilism, and director Cole Webley—working from a script by Robert Machoian—can't find enough notes to play beyond “well, this is all going to end in tears.”
It opens with widowed single dad Martin Harper (John Magaro) waking up his two kids—9-year-old Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and 6-year-old Charlie (Wyatt Solis)—and packing them into the car for an impromptu road trip to Nebraska, precipitated by getting evicted from their Nevada home.
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