Erik, the older son, looks forward to a football scholarship at the University of his choice. Tangerine premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015. She hauls her onto a bus to find Chester. He manages their family’s tangerine groves. She introduces him to the War Eagles—specifically to Tino and Victor. After Erik’s downfall, Mr. Fisher distances himself from Erik. Ashken at first thinks Razmik's secret is that he is smoking marijuana, but Chester accidentally explains that he only has sex with prostitutes. Mr. Fisher. Hurt, Sin-Dee leaves and tries to pick up some clients; they throw urine in her face and drive away shouting transphobic slurs. Erik is supposed to be focusing on his football prospects, and yet, he goes out in the middle of the night. Throughout the story, houses in Paul's neighborhood are fumigated for termites and many of the houses are robbed by Erik and his friend Arthur. His family credits his visual injury to an incident, which he does not remember, in which, at a young age, he continued to stare at a solar eclipse despite his parent's warnings not to. In a prologue, when Paul Fisher was in kindergarten, a few friends of Erik, Paul's older brother, calls Paul "Eclipse Boy," causing Paul to believe that was why he was visually impaired. Mrs. Fisher is Paul and Erik’s mom. This marks is first introduction to the agricultural production and field workers, whom he will soon come to love. He puts a lightning rod on his house, which bothers Paul’s mom. Joey is Paul’s first friend in the Tangerine area. Many people, including Paul and Joey, try to rescue those trapped, and no one is seriously injured. He also holds practice the day after Mike dies. He’s Erik’s biggest supporter and all he can think about is Erik’s future. [20] The film was released in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2015, by Metrodome Group. It also doesn’t seem as though he’s as good of a football player as everyone makes him out to be. He makes friends based on his popularity. He and his family go back to their apartment. While everyone else sees Erik as the star football player, Paul knows that there’s more to him. After Erik punches Tino, Luis comes to Erik’s school to avenge his young brother; but when he shows up, Arthur hits him over the head with a blackjack, causing an aneurism that kills Luis a week later. He is complicit in cheating by having Antoine Thomas play on his team. Then the murder story is revealed; his football season is forfeited and Erik falls from grace. As they leave, they find the police, led to the house by Joey, waiting outside to arrest Erik and Arthur for the murder of Luis. He meets Alexandra and fellates her in a car wash, then goes home to eat Christmas dinner with his family. She brings Paul to a soccer meet after school and he joins. Arthur is Erik’s sidekick who does his dirty work for him. The site's consensus reads "Tangerine shatters casting conventions and its filmmaking techniques are up-to-the-minute, but it's an old-fashioned comedy at heart—and a pretty wonderful one at that. TANGERINE CHARACTER LIST Paul Fisher Paul is the protagonist and narrator of Tangerine. He’s the chief civil engineer for Tangerine County. Joey is Paul’s first friend in the Tangerine area. Erik is the star of the football team and everyone gravitates towards him. Paul likes Mike. She tries to hold everything together while things fall apart. Joey’s brother Mike dies near the opening of the novel after being struck by lightning on... Tangerine study guide contains a biography of Edward Bloor, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Everyone on the football team is participating in keeping this secret. He cares about the team’s success above anything else. Paul's father finally breaks down as well when Paul questions whether they thought Paul hating himself would be better instead. One day Costello is killed by lightning; whereupon Erik and his friend Arthur Bauer tell jokes after hearing the news, even though Mike was one of their teammates. 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He’s suspicious of Paul when Paul arrives on the team. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. The film was executive-produced by the Duplass brothers, and produced by Karrie Cox and Marcus Cox with Through Films, Darren Dean, and Shih-Ching Tsou. Seven years later, Erik and Paul move houses, with their parents, from Houston, Texas to Lake Windsor Downs in Tangerine, Florida. The film was shot with three iPhone 5S smartphones. Joey’s family lives in the Lake Windsor housing development. Joey comes to join Paul at Tangerine Middle School after the sinkhole opens up at Lake Windsor Middle school. Arthur gets arrested for the murder of Luis at the end of the novel. His older brother is Luis and his sister is Theresa. He plays soccer, mostly as goalie. Paul then persuades Joey Costello to join the school. Alexandra hands out flyers for her musical performance that evening, and argues with a client who refuses to pay; their argument is broken up by the police. We know from Paul that Erik has a dark side, but for much of the novel we don’t know why. A man named Luis is introduced as the older brother of Theresa and Tino. Paul and Erik’s dad pays almost no attention to Paul, while obsessing about Erik’s football career. He sees the beauty of the trees and this beauty is captured in his language. [21], Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of 151 surveyed film critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 7.91/10. The Question and Answer section for Tangerine is a great When Paul helps out on the farm, Tino comes to trust Paul. Razmik arrives to solicit Sin-Dee, but he's followed by his mother-in-law. [5] It received critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, performances and portrayal of transgender individuals. [13] the Seattle International Film Festival on June 4, 2015,[14] and the Oak Cliff Film Festival on June 11, 2015. "[27], The first Academy Awards campaigns for openly transgender actresses supported by a film producer were launched for this film, in 2015, for actresses Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, though neither was nominated. But in both Lake Windsor and Tangerine Middle School he becomes popular when he proves his skills on the soccer field. In a prologue when Paul Fisher was in kindergarten, a few friends of Erik, Paul's older brother, calls Paul "Eclipse Boy," causing Paul to believe that was why he was visually impaired. This is revealed after the death of Mike Costello when he doesn’t want to change the time of practice even though the afternoons are the most dangerous time of day for lightning strikes. Tangerine is set in fictional Tangerine County, Florida. 2015 – Best Supporting Actress (Mya Taylor), This page was last edited on 1 November 2020, at 01:18. Paul runs back to his house, where a confrontation with a furious Arthur and Erik causes Paul to finally fully recall the memory he had been repressing - after spray-painting a wall and wrongfully assuming that Paul had turned them in(it was actually another kid), Erik restrained his brother while Vincent Castor (his lackey at the time, mirroring Erik's relationship with Arthur) sprayed paint into Paul's eyes as a twisted form of punishment. The time is around 1997, when the book was written. Luis goes to Erik's football practice to confront him with this; but Erik distracts him while signaling his friend Arthur to strike Luis from behind using a blackjack. Sin-Dee, Alexandra and Dinah go to the donut shop, where Sin-Dee confronts Chester. The Fisher family moved to Tangerine because of Mr. Fisher’s job. He concludes, "Perhaps these moments feel so graceful because they are oases; they matter because of the harsh, unforgiving terrain that has to be crossed in order to reach them. Reluctantly, the victims agree. Paul agrees to give the police a full statement to help convict them. "[26] In a positive review, The A. V. Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrote that "for all of Tangerine's movement [...] and all of its slapping and arguing, it's the movie's quietest, softest moments that register most strongly." Nothing boosts his confidence more than playing with the Lake Windsor Middle School team, the War Eagles. Paul confronts his parents about their concealment of the event. An argument between the eight escalates until the shop owner kicks them out. However, Joey has a bad attitude when he gets to Tangerine Middle.
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