The Sweet East begins with the Pledge of Allegiance and ends with a wobbly shot of the Stars and Stripes. Perhaps the men behind this cherry-bomb indie are trolling us into calling it a ...

A need to leave it all behind and reinvent oneself is at the core of Sean Price Williams’ feature directorial debut “The Sweet East,” but it’s only just the beginning. He and screenwriter Nick ...

The Sweet East is a well-shot though ultimately empty absurdist look at Eastern America. The film follows Lillian as she goes from a field trip to a more wandering and scattered series of encounters.

The Sweet East might go undetected in the box office this Easter break, but it's a gem worth discovering for those brave enough to tag along for the ride. A surrealist and wildly entertaining journey ...

I had very little expectations going into director Sean Price Williams’ “The Sweet East.” What was initially portrayed as a charming indie film with its soft, quaint opening, quickly devolved into a ...

Utopia has acquired North American rights to “The Sweet East,” a contemporary travelogue that marks the feature directing debut of Sean Price Williams. The sale comes after the film debuted at ...

Left to right, Simon Rex and Talia Ryder in Sean Price Williams' "The Sweet East." (Courtesy Leia Jospe/Utopia) “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” sidekick Talia Ryder takes the lead here as Lillian, a ...

Screenwriter Nick Pinkerton, who studied film at Wright State University from 1999 to 2003, is eager to have local audiences see his new indie film “The Sweet East” on Thursday, Feb. 15 at The Neon in ...

In Sean Price Williams’s debut film, The Sweet East, he pokes fun at the nation’s ideological bubbles. A scene from The Sweet East. Early in Long Strange Trip, Amir Bar-Lev’s exhaustive four-hour ...

Note: This review originally published on Next Best Picture. A need to leave it all behind and reinvent oneself is at the core of Sean Price Williams’ feature directorial debut “The Sweet East,” but ...