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Registered Sex Offender
Directed by Bob Byington2008Comedy
After three years inside, a man comes home to Austin with a new legal label and an old girlfriend who isn’t impressed. Bob Byington’s 2008 mockumentary — the Austin indie auteur of Harmony and Me and Somebody Up There Likes Me — follows Gabriel McIver’s hapless reentry: jobs that vanish, counseling that talks past him, a city that has already decided who he is. Kristen Tucker, Kevin Corrigan, Nick Offerman, Andrew Bujalski, and Richard Linklater turn up in Byington’s dry orbit. Shot like a community-access report that forgot to be pious, it is uncomfortable on purpose and funny in the same deadpan key as his other small features. Premiered at SXSW; not a sermon.
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After three years inside, a man comes home to Austin with a new legal label and an old girlfriend who isn’t impressed. Bob Byington’s 2008 mockumentary — the Austin indie auteur of Harmony and Me and Somebody Up There Likes Me — follows Gabriel McIver’s hapless reentry: jobs that vanish, counseling that talks past him, a city that has already decided who he is. Kristen Tucker, Kevin Corrigan, Nick Offerman, Andrew Bujalski, and Richard Linklater turn up in Byington’s dry orbit. Shot like a community-access report that forgot to be pious, it is uncomfortable on purpose and funny in the same deadpan key as his other small features. Premiered at SXSW; not a sermon.
- Director
- Bob Byington
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- Genres
- Comedy
- Catalog sections
- Indie Films