Jay DUPLASS comes behind the camera as a function film Director for the first time since 2012’s “The Do-Deca-Pentathlon” for 2025 SXSW Public Award winner “Baltimorons. “Located on Christmas Eve, the stars in the vortex wind May-December stars Michael Strassner (who also collaborated with Duplass) and Liz Larsen as a tooth patient and his dentist in the middle of an unexpected holiday crisis.
Here is the official synopsis with the permission of the distributor’s independent film company: “‘The Baltimorons’ follows the recently Sober Klippan (Michael Strassner) on an unexpected May/December adventure through Baltimore with Didi (Liz Larsen), his emergency, after he does not have to be a tooth of Christmas Eve. Cracks a tooth on Christmas Eve. While they do not seem to solve their own problems, Cliff and Diden are without getting back to another KL. Luccardi as Cliff’s frustrated girlfriend.
Here’s what indieviews David Ehrlich wrote out from SXSWSaying The Movie Brought to Mind “Before Sunrise” and “Between The Temples”: “‘The Baltimorons’ Tells the Breezy, Sweet, and Mega-Charming Story of What Happens When a Wayward ‘Yes, and-Er’ Winds Up Spending Christmas Anyone Else to Help Her Celebrate The Season… Funny and Fully Believable, ‘The Baltimorons’ is a small Movie, but a smart distributor would do good to take a Christmas classic in the creation.
In fact, the film has a smart distributor: Independent Film Company opens “The Baltimorons” in New York on September 5 with an extension to follow on September 12.
