🎬 Duck Butter

Naima is a guarded, dissatisfied actress struggling to find authenticity in her work and personal life, while Sergio is a free-spirited, passionate musician. Disillusioned with traditional dating patterns and superficial relationships, the two women meet at a Los Angeles nightclub and make an unconventional pact. They agree to spend twenty-four continuous hours together, engaging in conversation and intimacy every hour on the hour to fast-forward relationship intimacy. As physical exhaustion and emotional vulnerability set in over the course of the day, their artificial experiment exposes deep-seated fears and personal differences in this intimate character study.

⭐ Film Evaluation & Ratings 📈

🟡 IMDb Rating: 5.3 / 10

🍅 Rotten Tomatoes: 55% (Critics) | 38% (Audience)

🗣️ Critical Consensus: Directed by Miguel Arteta and co-written by star Alia Shawkat, Duck Butter received mixed reviews for its experimental premise and claustrophobic tone, while earning praise for its raw emotional vulnerability, uninhibited performances, and honest exploration of sapphic romance dynamics in independent queer cinema.

💡 Did You Know?

Accelerated Filming Schedule: To mirror the intense, real-time experiment depicted in the narrative, the production team shot the central twenty-four-hour sequence continuously over an actual twenty-four-hour filming block.

Duplass Brothers Production: Produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, prominent figures in independent mumblecore cinema known for supporting character-driven, low-budget improvisational features.

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