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Synopsis: Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises, in a gently hypnotic style that questions
Director(s): Alma Har'el
Production: Focus World
  2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
80 min
Website
50 Views


probably.

All right.

And it's not funny juice.

man:
His arm is broken,

can you see it?

woman:
Probably.

His arm-- arm right here

is broke.

I'm not gonna touch--

I'm not gonna touch you.

Is your arm broken?

Above his elbow, look at it.

Right here?

You gotta go in the hospital now

and get it looked at.

I'll take care of it.

You need to go to the hospital,

seriously, to get a--

If it starts bleeding

inside, you'll bleed to death.

Thank God.

I thought I wasn't

gonna like it out here.

But it's better than LA,

to me.

boy:
Eight, nine,

15, 17, 18, 30.

- boy:
I'm not ready!

- Here I come or not.

- Whoa.

- How do I get down?

Hey, how did you get

all the way up there?

What the--?

How'd he get up there?

( screaming )

Go back there and look,

your happy face...

Benny, Mom's playing--

- Turn the light on!

- Come on.

Aah!

- I wasn't ready!

- No, you were--

- One, two...

- Hurry up and run!

man:
You can't use a flashlight,

that's not hide-and-seek.

boy:
Ten, nine, eight, seven,

six, five, four, three,

two, one.

man:
KSWT, TV 13 Weekend News.

Sheriff's deputies recovered

the explosives and ammunition

in an island home.

Police first

responded to the home

to investigate

a child-neglect case

and found deplorable conditions

inside the home,

along with explosives.

Authorities arrested the couple

who lived there,

Michael and Pamela Parrish.

They say it's the largest

illegal-ammunition find

ever in Niland.

The Parrish Family

liked to play Army.

FBI attempted to get 'em

as terrorists.

You gotta remember

this is one year after 9/11.

Even though it occurred in

August 2002,

after we have a heavy rain,

it uncovers a lot of

the ordnance

that has been covered

with dirt or buried.

Goddamn.

It hasn't gone off.

Well, we'll just put a block of

C4 on it and make it go bye-bye.

Ooh, look at the shrapnel.

I'm glad those people

are doing good.

They are now, they are.

They're--

they're doing great.

Hard to believe it's the same

Parrish Family, you know?

Pamela:
Sometimes I think,

what else can we do

with our family here?

Because there's nothing.

All we could do is go riding in

the desert, shoot guns.

But we can't do that anymore.

Child Protective Services

already took the kids twice,

so if they take them again

for the third time,

they told us that

we would never see them again.

girl:
How did Stephanie know

that CPS was here?

Sabrina told me that she saw 'em

at a house when he drove by,

and there were county cars

and the sheriffs.

And if they're

gonna take kids away,

there's gonna be

a sheriff there.

'Cause you can't-- they can't

take 'em without a sheriff.

- They had three sheriffs there.

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