Dir: Sean Baker. Starring: Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, Suzanna Son, Brenda Deiss, Judy Hill, Brittney Rodriguez, Ethan Darbone, Shih-Ching Tsou. Cert 18, 131 minutes
Grifters come in many guises. But they all love to talk. The voice of porn star Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) ricochets around the frames of Sean Baker’s Red Rocket like a pyrotechnics show. Arriving back home in Texas after years in Los Angeles, Mikey rolls up to the house of his estranged wife – Bree Elrod’s Lexi – with bruises all over his body and nothing in his possession except the clothes on his back. But he talks his way into a spot on Lexi’s couch, just as – it’s implied – he once talked her into the porn industry many years before.
