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Wayne (Jeremy Sumpter) is a notorious under-achiever working for Dwyer's (Jeremy Holm) logistics company where he does just enough to not get fired but not enough to get ahead. And since he's in plenty of debt, he earns a little extra-money by selling drugs to his colleagues in need. And then he learns about an opportunity to bring a big shipment of drugs in from Canada for drug czar Hoppy (Rae Gray), an opportunity too big not to seize - but unfortunately he needs quite a bit of money for a down payment, money he doesn't have, so he ropes in two of his colleagues, Raquel (Nina Ganet) and Big Guy (Partick Zielinski). And at first glance, his plan seems fool-proof, to build a submarine to sneak into Canada and out again to avoid all customs, police and whatnot - pretty ingeníous, and it almost works, only there's one tiny flaw that has the submarine and all its contents sink in the end - Wayne has no experience in building submarines. So now his situation has seriously worsened since Hoppy still wants her drugs, and not even his friends can help out as he has wasted all their money, too. So he comes up with another plan that actually involves his work: Why not have shipments of one of their clients, a big pharma company, get "lost" every now and again? After all, shipments get lost all of the time and are insured, so it's pretty much a victimless crime. Sounds like an ingenious and risk-free plan, and for a time it works quite fine - until of course shipments get swapped, and when a sex shop owner expecting a crate of dildos receives a load of drugs instead, he gets suspicious enough to report this to the police ...

Now sure, not all the humour of Oxy Morons is exactly  high brow, and in some instances, the film is just a little too loud, too, but that said, more often than not the jokes really land, and the added satire on turbo capitalism isn't only very welcome, it also works quite so well as it's not front-and-center but instead lets a highly original story unfold that's populated by relatable characters embodied by a very competent ensemble. Worth a watch for sure - and quite a few chuckles.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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