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The Color Wheel is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Alex Ross Perry released in USA on 1 april 2011 with Ry Russo-Young

The Color Wheel (2011)

The Color Wheel
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Released in USA 1 april 2011
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2963153.2963153.2963153.2963153.296315

The Color Wheel is a 2011 American independent film directed by Alex Ross Perry and co-written by Perry and Carlen Altman, who also play the lead roles.

A screwball black comedy, the film follows adult siblings J.R. (Altman) and Colin (Perry) as they undertake a road trip to move J.R.'s belongings out of the home of her former lover and college professor (Bob Byington). Shot on black-and-white 16mm film, the film is noted for its unusual and abrasive style, rapid-fire dialogue, and dark plot.
After premiering at festivals in 2011, the film was named the best undistributed film of the year by the Indiewire and Village Voice polls, and placed 12th in a similar poll conducted by Film Comment.

The Color Wheel was released in a limited release in the United States on May 18, 2012, by Factory25.

Synopsis

Colin (Alex Ross Perry) lives with his girlfriend Zoe (Ry Russo-Young). His troubled sister JR (Carlen Altman) visits him asking for a favor. JR is an aspiring news anchor. She asks her brother to accompany her on a road trip to pick up her belongings from Neil who is her ex-boyfriend. Neil is a broadcasting professor at the college JR went to. Neil and JR lived together until they broke up and JR dropped out of school. Colin begrudgingly agrees to help his sister. During the trip they constantly bicker and argue with each other revealing that JR's relationship with her parents is dysfunctional unlike her brother's.

Actors

Ry Russo-Young

(Zoe)
Kate Lyn Sheil

(Julia)
Bob Byington

(Professor Neil Chadwick)
Alex Ross Perry

(Colin)
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