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Red Rocket is a 2021 American black comedy drama film directed by Sean Baker, who co-wrote it with Chris Bergoch.It stars Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, and Suzanna Son.The film stars Rex as a middle-aged, newly retired porn star who leaves Los Angeles for his small Texas hometown, plotting his way back to the life he once had.
The film, Red Rocket was released in 2021 and featured Son in a major role as a 17-year-old girl in East Texas who gets into a relationship with a former porn star, played by Simon Rex. The film was her first feature role; prior to Red Rocket, Son had appeared in a "risque" low-budget short film.
Simon Rex Cutright (born July 20, 1974), [1] known professionally as Simon Rex and his stage name Dirt Nasty, is an American actor and rapper.Rising to fame as an MTV VJ, Rex later became an actor known for What I Like About You, starring in three films of the Scary Movie franchise, and National Lampoon's Pledge This!.
Baker's seventh feature film, Red Rocket, stars Simon Rex as Mikey, a pornographic actor returning to his hometown in Texas. Baker directed, co-wrote and co-produced the film with his usual team of Bergoch and Tsou among others. Filming took place in secret amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, but "industry-standard safety protocols" were observed.
The film was then sold by FilmNation to Le Pacte for France, Lev for Israel, Kismet for Australia and New Zealand, and Focus Features/Universal Pictures International for the rest of the world excluding North America in deals similar to those made on Baker's previous film, Red Rocket. [14]
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern.The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually ...
Produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures and distributed by Summit Entertainment, it is the first film in the Red series. Directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, it stars Bruce Willis , Morgan Freeman , John Malkovich , Helen Mirren , Karl Urban , and Mary-Louise Parker , alongside Rebecca Pidgeon , Brian Cox ...
Red Rock West is a 1993 American post-Western neo-noir [1] thriller film directed by John Dahl and starring Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle, J. T. Walsh, and Dennis Hopper. It was written by Dahl and his brother Rick, and shot in Montana , Willcox, Arizona , Sonoita, Arizona and Elgin, Arizona .