Tyger Tyger

Tyger Tyger (2021)

A woman and her group of selfless thieves rob a pharmacy and hit the road to distribute medication, but find themselves trapped in the fringe lands of a law-less psychedelic city.

Date of release
2021-02-26
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kerry Mondragon

Casting

Interesting facts

Tyger Tyger is a 2021 pandemic thriller written and directed by Kerry Mondragon. It stars Dylan Sprouse, Sam Quartin, Nekhebet Kum Juch, Thea Sofie Loch Naess, Craig Stark, Eden Anne Brolin, Alma Martinez, and Max Madsen. Filmed on location in Southern California’s Slab City and Bombay Beach, the film gathered notoriety because it portrays a mysterious pandemic, yet was filmed just before the COVID-19 pandemic begun.

Production

The film was written by Mondragon based on his own experiences with drugs. He wrote it in two weeks, after having spent some time in the encampments of Slab City, California.

Tyger Tyger was filmed at Slab City, an anarchic off the grid squatter city build on an abandoned military base in the Sonoran Desert and populated by "anarchists, artists, drug addicts, eccentrics, outcasts, retirees, and the impoverished." Filmed on an ultra-low budget, it has been nevertheless been compared to Nomadland since it features performances by non-actors in their natural environments.

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