‘Booger’ Fantasia Review – Grief-Fueled Drama Features a Unique Kind of Body Horror
Anna (Grace Glowicki) is not okay. In writer/director Mary Dauterman’s feature directorial debut, the mid-twenties New Yorker is grieving the loss of her roommate and best friend, Izzy (Sofia Dobrushin). She’s dodging calls from her co-worker Devon for repeatedly missing work, eating questionable looking Thai take-out that Izzy left in the fridge, and refusing to acknowledge that her boyfriend Max (Garrick Bernard) might also be upset about Izzy’s death. And then Booger, the stray cat that she and Izzy adopted, escapes out the window. The cat is the straw that...