I Saw the TV Glow

I Saw the TV Glow

2024 · 100 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.1 (698 votes)
Dir. Jane Schoenbrun · Starring Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler · Music Alex G

There is still time.

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In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

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This film is a hazy, disorienting journey through memory and perception, steeped in a specific late-90s melancholic glow. It feels like a half-remembered dream, unsettling and introspective, exploring the fragile boundaries of self and reality with a deeply felt, yearning queer sensibility.

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