Johnny
Berlin
Directed by Dominic DeJoseph
56 min • 2005 • USA • English • Color
This documentary follows Jon Hyrns,
a porter aboard a refurbished 1930s luxury train, on a week-long
trip down the West Coast from Seattle to Los Angeles. While
going about his business making beds and cleaning toilets,
he expounds upon his life as a struggling
writer while holding down a workday job.
Simultaneously funny and dark, the
film is ultimately an intimate, offbeat, and humorous portrait
of mid-life crisis presented as a monologue.
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