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Frybread Face and Me

By: Michael Talbot-Haynes
Publication: Film Threat
December 12, 2023

NOW ON NETFLIX! Only in Narnia will you find a boy more devoted to a white witch than the Stevie Nicks-loving Benny (Keir Tallman) in indigenous writer/director Billy Luther’s charming coming-of-age story Frybread Face and Me. 1990, San Deigo. When 11-year-old Benny’s dad isn’t around, he loves to dress up like Stevie Nicks with his mom, Ann (Morningstar Angeline), and dance around. He’s been saving up for the summer Fleetwood Mac concert, but his dad has other ideas. Benny is going to go to his grandmother’s isolated sheep ranch outside Winslow, Arizona, to learn to be a man.

Getting off the bus, Benny is met by his couch-surfing Aunt Lucy (Kahara Hodges), who gets by selling handmade jewelry. Uncle Marvin (Martin Sensmeier) pokes fun at Benny’s Stevie Nicks-esque cowgirl hat. Grandmother Lorainne (Sarah H. Natani) never learned English and speaks only in Navajo, which Benny doesn’t know. Lucky for him, cousin Frybread (Charley Hogan) speaks both, and she has also been dropped off for the summer. There isn’t much to do at Grandma’s except herd sheep and learn to weave. There’s no television, and the only VHS is an overdue copy of Starman. Benny tries to plot a way back to San Diego in time for the concert, as he feels he doesn’t fit in. However, with Frybread’s help, he starts to learn a little more about life than he was expecting to in the middle of nowhere.

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