The Florida Project
Halley and her 6-year-old daughter Moonee live in a motel on a strip that caters to tourists visiting Walt Disney World. Halley is a welfare-dependent person who has no respect for others, even those she crosses. This attitude has been passed on to her daughter Moonee who, like her mother, curses and points fingers. Bobby, who manages the motel, made arrangements to let Halley live in the hotel despite the fact that the company’s policy does not allow for long-term rentals. He realizes many tenants like him have nowhere else to call home. Moonee, Halley and Moonee’s close friends who reside in the motel and other similar buildings along the strip are frequently the bane of Bobby’s existence. However, Bobby also has a soft spot for children, and therefore their parents. He knows Moonee, Moonee, and others like them, are children who act like children, regardless of the guidance that they receive, Moonee having less than many. Bobby is open to letting the most disruptive behavior go. There are certain lines he won’t tolerate, but mainly as long as the impact on the motel’s bread and butter, the tourist trade, it will be okay. This is how the summer at this colective looks. Moonee, her friends (such as Scooty), are gone to school. Self-absorbed Halley can do whatever she likes, sometimes just watching TV in the living room. Halley, Ashley’s son, and the boy of Halley, is responsible for looking after Scooty. They live together in the same unit as Halley, Moonee, and Ashley works at the local diner. Ashley then steals Halley’s meals at the diner for Moonee, Halley and Scooty. Halley begins to discredit those who have been her informal support over the course of summer by reacting with disrespect to anyone she finds against her. Halley takes more drastic measures in order to keep the Moonee-centric life that she has with Moonee. –Huggo
Genre: Drama
Director: Sean Baker
Actors: Aiden Malik, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince, Caleb Landry Jones, Christopher Rivera, Valeria Cotto, Willem Dafoe
Country: United States
