Tribeca 2019: "Come to Daddy"
Team Experience reporting from the Tribeca Film Festival. Here's Jason Adams
Come to Daddy opens like a big-screen reboot of Schitt's Creek, with Elijah Wood working his best elaborate David Rose ensemble of flappy black fabrics without discernible seams. He's yanking a wheelie suitcase through a no place field. Slowly, the cinema happens -- the field gives way to the trees, a forest, a gorgeous coastline, all while Elijah's Moe-hairdo and black nail polish paint him as a rank outsider in this place of nature and wonder.
Soon enough we see that he's doing what all us fancy city boys must do at one point or another -- he's going home. Except not entirely...