Until last night I hadn’t even heard of Shane Atkinson‘s Laroy, Texas. Apparently it’s a primitive action thing about crude backwater Texas trash. Then again it costars Dylam Baker, which implies a veneer of intelligence.
It’s presumed that costar John Magaro, who mostly specializes in playing sensitive cerebral types (i.e., wimps), doesn’t play one of the primitives.
Pic opened at the Tribeca Film Festival almost 33 months ago, and opened commercially via Brainstorm on 4.12.24. Mostly positive reviews all around, but it quickly died. I’m presuming it’s at least semi-watchable.
Indiewire‘s Christian Zilko: “Watching LaRoy, Texas is a lot like the seedy motel affairs that all of its characters seem to be having –two hours of fun, followed by a tragic feeling of emptiness and a desire for a shower.”c