Down in the gutter

This thing is set around a scrubby roadside motel somewhere in Florida, its tenants and manager (fantastic Willem Dafoe). It shows the other - uglier - side of the land of the free. Kids have nothing to do, everything is noisy, dirty and hopelessly derelict, people are desperately poor, uneducated and they eat junk. It ain't the Florida you get when you google it up, it's the one no one speaks about, a proper nature of things, a third world country hidden in the shadows of a once great nation. It's still a very good movie, the kids steal the show, their performance is so natural that it looks improvisational and if it is, it's even more amazing.