Year of The Carnivore

– YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
5.80 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 28 Minutes
Release Year:
2009
Year of the Carnivore (2009)

YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience'. SAMMY SMALLS is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective at Big Apple Food Town. Her job is to deliver shoplifters to her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. Sammy is head over heels for scruffy street musician EUGENE ZASLAVSKY. He's perfect for her, funny, irreverent and sensitive, but the problem is, he doesn't want to be in a relationship. After a disastrous one-night stand that goes beyond the boundaries of their friendship, Eugene suggests they play the field to get more experience. Following his advice, Sammy hatches a plan catapulting her on a quest that takes her through her neighbours' bedroom, the public swimming pool, and finally to blackmailing shoplifters into giving her sex lessons in the woods behind the supermarket.

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Filming Locations:
USA
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Year of the Carnivore (2009) - Trailer

Release Date:

10 Sep 2009

Language:

English, French

Director:

Sook-Yin Lee

Writer:

Ken Chubb (story editor), Sook-Yin Lee (screenwriter), Marguerite Pigott (story editor)

Main Actors:

Cristin Milioti, Mark Rendall, Ali Liebert, Kevin McDonald

Plot:

Twenty-one year old Sammy Smalls has self-esteem issues. She hides behind her frumpy clothes and the slight limp she sustained from a childhood illness. She works in a dead end job as an undercover shoplifter detector at a Big Apple Food Town, her boss Dirk who has his own brand of vigilante justice for the shoplifters. And she considers her parents, although loving in their own unique way, not good role models for her. She doesn't like people touching her in an emotional manner, the ticklish feeling she gets from such being yet another thing behind which she hides. As a result, she is sexually inexperienced. However, she does have a crush on Eugene Zaslavsky, a busker musician who performs outside her supermarket. Each considers the other a friend, but their attempt to take the friendship into a sexual realm results in utter disaster. Although they vow to remain friends, Eugene won't sleep with her again due to her sexual inexperience. So Sammy goes on an expedition for advice and sexual experience from whomever and where ever she can find it, except from Eugene. Eugene, not fully realizing it, also has self-image issues with which he must comes to terms before he can be a true friend and possibly more to Sammy.

Awards:

2 nominations.

Production:

34 Seconds Productions

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
5.8/10