Boomerang

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US Premiere - A joint product of Canada and Yugoslavia, with a screenplay by acclaimed novelist Svetislav Basara, Dragan Marinkovic's Boomerang manages to combine fast-paced action with literate dialogue, dark comedy with political allegory, and chaos with peace. For a group of likeable lowlifes in post-war Serbia, Boomerang isn't just the name of their favorite cafe; it's a way of life. A teenage girl falls in love with a mobster in a movie theatre. He wants to marry her, unaware that his partners are chasing her and their stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a bartender, who smuggles weapons on the side, wakes up in a blonde wig and tries to piece together what he did the night before. These are just a few of the quirky characters whose paths cross, and double cross, in a day that includes marriage, armed robbery, murder mystery, childbirth, hit and run accidents, and even characters rising from the dead. All paths lead to Cafe Boomerang, where this cast of disparate and dissolute characters converges and combusts in a final delirious series of events, which, ready or not, propels them into a new day. Boomerang is a slice-of-life served with plenty of laughs and a dash of bite. - Jason Martin