Name: Torrey Pines
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama
Released: 2016-10-18
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 5

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About

Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. Raised by a schizophrenic single mother, Petersen's life story unfolds in a series of baffling and hallucinated events. With a mother fueled by hallucinations of political conspiracy and family dysfunction, twelve-year-old Petersen is taken on a cross-country adventure that will forever alter the family as they know it.

Theatrical

Oct 18, 2016

Director

Clyde Petersen

Producers

Chris Walla, Clyde Petersen, Jenny Asarnow

Keywords

autobiography road trip based on true story coming of age gender identity mother son relationship