Dianne Agron and Thomas Hayden Church stopped by Silence on Set podcast to talk about their latest movie currently playing at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival called Acidman. Agron and Church talk about the importance of family, the father/daughter bond, love, mental health, and an unbreakable connection within the human spirit. This film is a must-see and the listening to Agron and Church talk about the film, it is clear why.
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Maggie (Dianna Agron) arrives at a small, run-down house in the middle of nowhere to find it defaced by big orange letters reading ACIDMAN and learns that this is the locals' nickname for her reclusive father (Thomas Haden Church). After a decade apart, Maggie's offhand explanation for her visit is that she just wanted to check in on him, but this doesn't ring true considering how difficult he was to find. The two awkwardly want to get to know one another (Dad seems more comfortable talking through his dog Migo, or through Bobby, Maggie's childhood sock puppet friend), but are at the same time scared about what increasing familiarity will bring.
After Dad reluctantly brings her on one of his nighttime outings, Maggie realizes that his obsession with UFOs and communicating with extraterrestrial beings have only intensified over the years. She struggles to understand him, his single-mindedness, and deteriorating mental health, all the while with her own life-changing news to share. Letting their relationship ebb and flow through anger, silly jokes, tender gestures, and sadness, director Alex Lehmann leads the film in a beautiful meditation on the cyclical nature of parenthood and the longing for connection.--Frederic Boyer