THE BEGINNER
USA, 94 MIN, WORLD PREMIERE Director: Benjamin Coccio Producer: Benjamin Coccio Writer: Benjamin Coccio Cast: Cal Robertson, Sarah Vannel, Ana Kayne, Damien Langan Carter is a 21 year old middle-class white boy who is spinning hiswheels in his parent's house. Everyone around him has graduated from college, grown up and moved on.
After a personal revela- tion, he demands his parents give him his unused college fund so that
he can move out and live off of it. His parents acquiesce. Carter has no ambition or plan, and he soon
becomes addicted to absolute personal freedom. Eventually, even the money he has been living off
becomes too much of an attach- ment and he tries to blow it all at a casino. He fails at that and
makes a mint at a Roulette table. The next morning he leaves the bread with his sleeping friend in their
hotel room and heads off alone. He heads further west and finds himself alone in the world. He falls in
with a younger runaway, Judith, a teenager from France who ditched her folks while on a family vacation.
Carter stays with her until his conscience gets the better of him. He tries to set her straight and
then heads home to make things right with his family. MON 29, 9:15 pm, Regency Agoura Hills 8, Theater 1
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