- Actors: Nick Kroll, Alexi Pappas
- Director: Jeremy Teicher
- Disc Format: NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Region: Region 1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: Parents Strongly CautionedPG-13
- Studio: IFC Independent Film
- DVD Release Date: May 19, 2020
- Run Time: 82 minutes
If I were to describe an independent film
starring an actor known for his comedic roles who encounters and engages in a
flirtatious friendship with a much younger woman while on a job in a foreign
country, it would be easy to mistake my description for the 2003 hit, Lost in Translation. This just goes to
prove that independent films, for all of their claims of creative originality,
can also be guilty of formulaic plotting and derivative content, because the
exact same description works for 2019’s Olympic
Dreams. While it is a likable enough film, the only original element of
this newer independent dramedy about two lonely souls meeting in an unfamiliar
city is the setting. And while being the first film to be shot inside of the
actual Olympic Village is a certain claim of originality, the filmmakers seem
far more preoccupied with this element of the storytelling than the character
development or dialogue.
