After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and taken on a journey across the country, experiencing a world they’ve never seen before. As their adventure unfolds, Ella begins to understand that things might not be what they seem.
Peter Albrechtsen David Barber Myrto Chatziandreou Connery Johnson Johannes Krause Martin Langenbach Mikkel Nielsen Sean Weitzeil
오마하
USA
Sundance Film Festival
USA
Miami Film Festival
USA
my dad wrote this movie when i was 10 years old, based the two children on my oldest little brother and i.
i an attempt to scout for locations and prep for the shoot he took my brother and i on a week long road trip from sacramento to omaha nebraska and back and essentially ran us through the basic outline of the script. kites in the salt flats, fireworks on the side of the road, hotel swimming pools, and any other fun we could have along the way. that trip was when i first read the script for omaha.
it’s now 13 years later, im coming up on my mid twenties and i just got to watch that story…
I am upset
(It is very good)
What the fuck man
There's a sequence in this that ruined my day. A hard, sad movie.
The first time you cry you will think it can’t possibly get worse. It can.
I wouldn’t be shocked if this remains the best film I see at Sundance. John Magaro has never been better as a caring father of two wrestling with an inner crisis. The film is well directed and has a rhythm and tone that locked me in from the start. With excellent child performances and organic dialogue that never breaks your hypnosis, I won’t soon forget this emotional gut punch of a film
Most people think poverty porn is an abrasive picture that is loud, lewd and angry. But I think poverty porn is this: sappy and flat, rubbing winsome emotion in your face in the hopes that you’ll vomit out sympathy for people that the film solely sees as poor and broken.
John Magaro gives a heartbreaking Oscar-worthy performance in Cole Webley’s OMAHA, the first great film of 2025. This intensely sad story is masterfully told with richly drawn characters, a tremendous sense of place, and beautiful pacing all the way through. Don’t miss this one.
Such talented kids 🥹 The late-end reveal title card didn’t bother me in the sense that it preserves the perspective of the story while giving the context necessary for this to stand up as some kind of slice of history to study carefully. Pretty moving and thoughtful.
punches & moments of release didn’t land for me—the swings are there but it’s kind of like being blindfolded and trying to hit a piñata and being a couple inches off.
the one thing that started to crack the paper shell for me was this moment ella thought she lost charlie and after a few seconds of panic, finds out he already went back to the car. but she gets in the passenger’s seat and says nothing, expresses no relief or frustration, doesn’t ask any questions. everything is left unspoken, to the extent where no care ever breaks through. everything hangs by a string—waiting for the sign that someone might come along and save it before the bat starts to make contact.
edit: john magaro i love you dearly
This is such a manipulative film about the structural issues in this country that lead towards homelessness and poverty. Also, to withhold the information as to WHY he was headed to Nebraska with the kids until the title cards was such a dishonest way to create tension. I guess it's because the film is supposed to be from the point of view of the kids, but the film doesn't even commit to being from the point of view of the kids. All it does is use the idea of kids and the idea of poverty as a cypher, instead of crafting actual characters. This is a pale copy of films like Wendy and Lucy or Sunlight Jr. which are actually invested in presenting fully-realized characters that are being eaten up by the systems. This film doesn't seem to care enough to create characters OR examine systems. It just wants you to cry.
Sundance watch #5:
My fav movie of the this year’s festival lineup so far. A roadtrip movie about a single dad taking care of his children was never going to be a cheerful watch. The film is mainly in the perspective of the daughter played by Molly Belle Wright gives an incredible child performance while John Magaro is fantastic. I’ve been a Magaro stan since Umbrella Academy: Season 1, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this movie stays in my Top 5-10 films of this year. A great balance of being a heartwarming road trip movie and also a heartbreaking story set in one of the most depressing periods in the modern American history, being the financial crisis of the…
