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This Elijah Wood Crime Drama Is Criminally Underrated

Written by Danni Turner
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Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood are hilarious as a pair of unlikely vigilantes in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore.

A crime drama like no other, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is a hilarious meditation on society and the a-holes in it. Written and directed by Green Room actor Macon Blair in his directorial debut, it follows timid nurse Ruth (Melanie Lynskey), who has pretty much had it with the world. The movie begins with Ruth on her way to work at a second-rate hospital; sitting in traffic, she sighs as the vehicle in front of her revs its engine, pumping black fumes from its exhaust. At work, a BLM protest is playing on the TV in the room of a dying patient who is a raging racist: her parting words are a rant on Black Americans.

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