Strawberry Mansion

2021

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 87% · 91 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 3081 3.1K

Director

Kentucker Audley Photo
Kentucker Audley

Top cast

Penny Fuller Photo
Penny Fuller as Arabella Isadora
Reed Birney Photo
Reed Birney as Peter Bloom
Grace Glowicki Photo
Grace Glowicki as Young Bella
Constance Shulman Photo
Constance Shulman as Martha
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837.55 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 2
1.68 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by The-Amnesiac 7 / 10

Messy but a beautiful story

Fever dream city. I'm amazed on what they were able to do with a $200k budget. It's a fantastical love story that's full of adventure and bizarre scenes. The government is putting ads in people's dreams and Bella schemes to unwind it. The synthesizer score immediately pulls you in and intensifies the strangeness. The struggle to find Bella's intentions builds up some great tension in the first act. Penny Fuller is good as Bella but Grace Glowicki is even better as young Bella. Her innocent demeanor makes the emotional moments hit that much harder. Preble is good as the lead but he benefits a lot from circumstances and crazy effects.It's a really messy movie with simple themes. I would tell you about it but I'm stoned and it really is like a dream so I forgot most of it. Also I have amnesia.I admittedly didn't sniff enough glue to get fully immersed but I still had a good time. There is a wide range of effects used although it's quite messy at times. I see the filmmakers took inspiration from the great Frank Herbert as Preble becomes a mini Shai-Hulud to make his way home to Bella.
Reviewed by mikeborgen 7 / 10

Trippy but lacking

This movie reminded me of an episode of The Mighty boosh, if directed by Wes Anderson.The main character in this movie, I thought was Julian Barrett Howard moon in the Mighty Boosh but it turns out it just looks a lot like him.I enjoy The Whimsy and creativity of the film, that's what I most will take away. But I don't like was the style of surreal acting, it was very reminiscent of the movie the room with Tommy Wiseau-- just not my cup of tea.This movie demonstrates creativity on a shoestring budget, a cool concept, but something overall was lacking. It just doesn't have the emotional connection or wow factor of a Wizard of Oz or a Pan's Labyrinth.If anything, this movie will inspire writers and low budget directors to challenge themselves making a cool concept, low budget film.
Reviewed by Snootz 5 / 10

Surreal is fine, but

To say this dream is surreal is an understatement. Surreal is fine; it has its purpose. But that's the problem with this movie; it seems to have no purpose. A brainwashed man waking up to reality? Real life is actually the dream? Who knows... they never really say.The movie starts off showing all the promise of a true masterpiece, and raised my expectations due to the excellent acting, directing and choreography. But about halfway through the skill and professionalism suddenly turned into something that had all the appearance of a college project running out of funding and time.The ending is a disappointment as the viewer realizes throughout the entire film no actual point has been made. Is there too much commercialism in our lives? We already know that. Is our society brainwashed by ads and lead to believe we need to buy things that we don't need at all. That is pretty obvious. This film is a long way to go to make obvious points.In the end what we're left with is a big question mark as to what the writers and director are intending to portray. And despite the enjoyable surrealism-- that surrealism is without point. (The Blue Demon holding a captive really makes no sense at all, as it ties in to absolutely nothing else in the film.) The ending just kind of flops. One hopes to the bitter end they have a purpose to all this, but too late we figure out that if they ever did... they didn't get it across to the viewing audience.Some people will love this for the art and abstract nature. That's fine. (The solid pink room was a solid start.) Others will dislike it for its totally disjointed and pointless final half... and they won't be wrong. Go into this one with both eyes open and a strong drink.
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