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BETTER LUCK TOMORROW
Opens: Friday, April 25
Chase Park Plaza Cinemas
212 N. Kingshighway, St. Louis, MO (Located in the Central West End of St. Louis, on Kingshighway, one mile north off Highway 40 at the corner of Lindell and Kingshighway. Phone: 314/367-0101)
Director: Justin Lin
BETTER LUCK TOMORROW is a kinetic film that traces the
double lives of over-achieving teenagers whose
ambition combines with the tedium of suburban life
with explosive results.
Synopsis:
Everyone knows a person like Ben - the perfect Asian American high school teen. He's an extremely intelligent perfectionist, an overachiever whose tunnel vision will lead to nothing less than graduating at the top of the class and acceptance to the best Ivy League university.
Ben lives in an upper middle class, conservative L.A. suburb in Southern California. As he struggles to achieve social success in high school, we discover his darker side. Along with two friends, Virgil, a brilliant yet socially inept misfit, and Virgil's cousin Han, a lost soul with more brawn than brains, Ben leads a double life of mischief and petty crimes that alleviate the pressures of perfection.
At the start of his high school freshman year, Ben befriends Daric, the senior valedictorian and another archetypical overachiever and perfectionist. But Daric is somewhat odd. While being the most intelligent student in the class, he also seems to be the most volatile and dangerous. Behind his trusting and benevolent facade lies a lurking secret, a time-bomb ready to explode. With Daric at the helm, this group of misfit teens bands together into a suburban gang.
As their adopted identity grows, Ben and the gang tumble into a downward spiral of excitement, excess, fun and lurking danger. Ben's life careens out of control, into an intoxicating mix of sex, drugs and crime, leading to a surprising end that will leave audiences engrossed, speechless and ultimately disturbed.
BETTER LUCK TOMORROW played at both the Toronto Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival and is the first Asian American film to be picked up for distribution at Sundance.
Rated: R (for violence, drug use, language, and sexuality)
Running Time: 98 minutes
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