Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town


Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town is a 2017 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Christian Papierniak. The film stars Mackenzie Davis as a woman at rock bottom who must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party. The film had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival on June 17, 2017. It was released theatrically in the United States on June 22, 2018, by Shout! Studios.

Cast

Release

Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival on June 17, 2017. In November 2017, Shout! Studios acquired distribution rights to the film. It was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on June 22, 2018.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film was nominated at the 2019 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for "Best Film Budgeted Under 5 Million Dollars".

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 56% based on 41 reviews, and the critics' consensus that it "has all the restless energy viewers might expect given the title, but it's only sporadically channeled into a meaningful story." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.

Accolades

The film won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2017 Tacoma Film Festival, where Davis was also awarded Best Actor. Davis won Best Breakout Performance at that year's Napa Valley Film Festival. In 2018, the screenplay for the film was permanently added to the Core Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library.