Jessica Barden plays a young woman trying to escape her economically depressed Ohio town in writer-director Nicole Riegel's drama 'Holler.'
Life is hard for teenage Ruth Avery , harder than it should be. She’s smart, selling homework for cash and stealing library books because her poor attendance record won’t let her check them out. Ruth is possessed of a tough, scrappy intuition honed by survival instincts, because Ruth and her brother Blaze are on their own. Alone. With mom detoxing in county jail, the siblings recycle cans for rent money, but it just doesn’t cut it.
Nicole Riegel’s directorial debut “Holler” is an unflinching autobiographical work about what it takes to lift oneself out of this marginalized life. It’s not just the merits of intelligence or hard work for someone like Ruth, but a willingness to sacrifice the only things she has, everything she’s known.
Shot on Super 16mm on location, there’s a gritty realism to Riegel’s work, found in the film grain and the dark abandoned buildings where Ruth and Blaze strip copper wire from the ceilings, working as a part of an illegal scrap crew. Blaze has sent in Ruth’s college application, and her acceptance ignites the dream in both of them that she might escape. All they need is a little money, and so they turn to the menacing scrap dealer Hark .
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