Since his on-screen breakthrough as the hapless protagonist in Jeremy Saulnier’s 2013 thriller Blue Ruin, filmmaker Macon Blair has proven himself as something of an all-rounder of indie cinema. Across acting, producing, writing, and directing, his low-budget oeuvre is often laced with a dark streak of humour and he has leaned further into comedy for his latest effort. Previously titled Shitheads until some reluctance from their distributors to promote the film, Idiots follows Davis (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) and Mark (Dave Franco) as two recently unemployed down-and-outs who pair up for a job at a transport agency. Assigned the seemingly simple task of escorting privileged teen tearaway Sheridan (Mason Thames) to a rehab clinic, a series of encounters lead to crime and chaos along the way.
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