SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY
See You Next Tuesday
Drew Tobia, 2014
Catalog No.: FTF-205
Length: 82 minutes
Mona (Eleanore Pienta) is a mentally unbalanced and very pregnant young woman in a hideous orange coat. Without any friends to speak of and alienated from her coworkers at a crummy Brooklyn supermarket, Mona maintains a strangely close relationship with her campy, recovering alcoholic mother May (Dana Eskelson). Mona's sister Jordan (Molly Plunk) is an unemployable party girl, estranged from May and making life hell for her increasingly fed up girlfriend Sylve (Keisha Zollar). In the final days of her pregnancy, Mona draws her mother, sister, and anybody who happens to get caught in her wake into her hectic life as she drifts further from reality. Featuring a tapestry of diverse characters with varying levels of sanity and awful taste in wardrobe, See You Next Tuesday is a dark comedy the whole family can enjoy cutting themselves to.
Featuring: Eleanore Pienta, Dana Eskelson, Molly Plunk, Keisha Zollar
Written and Directed by Drew Tobia
Produced by Rachel Wolther
Cinematography by Andrew J. Whittaker
Music by Brian McOmber
Festivals: Vienna International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Belfort Entrevues Film Festival, Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, IndieMemphis, Sidewalk Film Festival and more
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"A black comedy that offers no apologies for its dysfunctional characters and scorched-earth dialogue."
-Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal
"Drew Tobia’s awesomely cynical portrait of a pregnant single Brooklynite alienated from her lesbian sister and mean-spirited mother has a liberating quality embedded in its snide dialogue and perceptive look at urban eccentrics. Comparisons to early Todd Solondz are apt."
-Eric Kohn, IndieWire
"The movie approaches the psychological horror of Roman Polanski's Repulsion. Like that film, See You Next Tuesday locks the viewer into a disturbed character's head space, generating terror from the possibility it will erupt upon the world at large.
-Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
"Uproariously funny."
-David Lee Dallas, Slant Magazine
"Rude, cruel, bratty, painful to watch, funny to watch and, sometimes, reckless...Refreshing."
-Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times
"There's a clarity to Tobia's voice, dirty as it may be in vocabulary, and if he wanted to make a statement with his debut, he's accomplished that and more."
-Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
"The performances are extraordinary, the dialogue is stingingly acute, the direction is sublime. This is quite simply one of the best films of the year."
-Matt Fagerholm, Indie Outlook
"Pienta regularly showcases a certain agility within her portrayal, as she not only wrings emotional truths from the dramatic situations, but is also able to maintain a comedic baseline, providing levity throughout."
-Kevin Rakestraw, Film Pulse
"The tone veers unpredictably (though never sloppily) between grotesque farce, sensitive chamber drama, and psychological horror, communicating the characters' loose grip on reality and making us confront our conflicted feelings toward people who seem beyond redemption."
-Ben Sachs, Reader
"Tobia approaches comedy in the same way that John Cassavetes did, which is to say that he embraces the absurdity of human behavior at the same time that he recoils from it."
-Calum Marsh, Village Voice
"Tobia has really come into his own with See You Next Tuesday, an insightful contribution that heralds a career to watch."
-Lisa Thatcher, Lisathatcher.com
"Fearless."
-Zach Campbell, Videodromology