Arizona Seaside

2007

Comedy

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 105 105

Plot summary

Elena, a young factory worker from Kazakhstan with Nashville dreams, is duped by a wannabe pimp and oddball gangster. Through a comedy of errors she crosses paths with a sweet con man moonlighting as a Robin Hood for stray animals.

Director

Jens Pilegaard Photo
Jens Pilegaard

Top cast

Kim Delgado Photo
Kim Delgado as Doc
Roy Werner Photo
Roy Werner as George
Sanjay Photo
Sanjay as Previn
R. Emery Bright Photo
R. Emery Bright as Sawtooth
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856.12 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Phil_Chester

Fun, gentle humour

There's a lot to commend this entertaining, quirky indie film. My favourite bit was the scatty Cockney Rhyming Slang sequences, which really made me smile. (Don't worry, there are subtitles for the non-native speakers.) Fun stuff all round, with lots of other characters well worth a watch, plus a great soundtrack.
Reviewed by TheAll-SeeingI 9 / 10

Fun and Funny

Writing and directing a murder mystery doesn't lead people to implicate its writer/director as a murderer, or as inherently mysterious. Yet when you're Jens Pilegaard and you write and direct a wonderfully eccentric nut job comedy like Arizona Seaside, it's hard not to presume that Pilegaard must in Real Life be gloriously off-the-rails. It's just how it works.Whether or not that's true, Arizona Seaside picks up the stick and slaps you with it early and often. One look at the log line portends what lies ahead: "A Kazakhstan girl crosses paths with a sweet conman moonlighting as a Robin Hood for stray animals." Game on! As the film opens up its metaphorical bathrobe and exposes its goofball self to the audience, we see a weirdly solid storyline relationship develop between the Kazakstani runaway wanting to be a country music superstar (!) and the anal-rententive, business-minded bloke Pilegaard shrewdly counterpoints her against. Despite a cast as large and as wildly unique as the comedic ideas flying in and out, Arizona Seaside admirably holds its focus on these two core characters throughout this cleverly absurdist ride.If you're the type who needs comparables, sketch-driven mainstays like Saturday Night Live (when at the height of its powers) and the legendary Monty Python are legitimate reference points, as is Chevy Chase's Vacation series: All utilize the outlandish melded with a coherent story. Through to the end, Arizona Seaside is as fun as it is funny.
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