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| Jessica Barden in Holler |
Holler is a well intentioned, yet under nourishing slice of rust belt angst. Director Nicole Riegel's script gives us heroine Ruth Avery (Jessica Barden) and her older brother scrapping metal at night so she can afford to go away to college and escape her dead end town. Cultural signifiers parade by contributing to the unrelenting gloom: factory closures, Trump ranting, eviction notices, condescending guidance counselors, prescription drug abusers and crossbow hunters all are here to create an American Gothic style portrait of Jackson County, Ohio.
Holler has some mitigating virtues, but Ms. Riegel has created talking points, not drama.
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