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Tangerine

Name: Tangerine
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2015
Duration: 87 min

2015Comedy · Drama87 min

4.5/5

Trans leads playing trans characters, being funny rather than tragic.

Two trans sex workers, Christmas Eve in LA, shot on iPhones.

Our take

Sin-Dee gets out of jail, learns her boyfriend has been cheating, and spends Christmas Eve tearing across Hollywood to do something about it. Sean Baker shot it on three iPhones, which gives it a blown-out, sun-sick look that no camera package would have got near.

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor are the film, and Taylor in particular is very funny and then, in a donut shop at the end, quietly devastating. It refuses to make its characters into a subject; they are just two friends having an appalling day, and the last scene is about friendship rather than romance, which is the right call.

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Jibbi Score — 4.5 out of 5 rainbows. Trans leads playing trans characters, being funny rather than tragic.

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Rotten Tomatoes — 96%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
TMDB — 6.9 out of 10 from 834 votes, refreshed daily.

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The plot, officially

It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

Synopsis and poster via TMDB.