Simultaneously funny and dark, this documentary follows Jon Hyrns, a porter aboard a refurbished 1930s luxury train. Passengers on the Seattle to L.A. trip know him as βJohnny Berlinβ - the man responsible for making their beds and cleaning their toilets. We get to know him differently - as a middle-aged, struggling writer with a workaday job and as many dreams as he has beds to clean. Boyishly charming and with many stories to tell, Johnny takes us on a trip through his life. Heβs a true wanderer, a man without a home base, whose only plan is to spend his savings on a trip to Cambodia to write his long-gestating novel. The film is ultimately an intimate, offbeat, and humorous portrait of mid-life crisis presented as a traveling monologue. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 8.4/10 | |
Released: | June 17, 2005 | |
Runtime: | 56 min | |
Genres: | Documentary | |
Companies: | Black Shoe Films | |
Cast: | Jon Hyrns | |
Crew: | Dominic DeJoseph | |
Arcangel2020 : Another good "Dexter" limited series. Looking forward to "Dexter: Resurrection"