ComingSoon is excited to debut an exclusive Hippo clip from the extremely weird and very funny dark comedy coming-of-age movie from Mark H. Rapaport.
The Hippo clip shows the main character, Kimball Farley’s Hippo, eating birthday cake in an extremely messy manner while talking about how noble warriors ate the hearts of their first kill. He then takes issue with his mother, played by Eliza Roberts, not showing him respect as he’s 19 years old and it’s “in the constitution” that he has to be legally respected. The dark comedy is out in select theaters from Kinematics.
“The film examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video game-addicted teenager, and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus,” reads the synopsis. “Like the Ancient Greek Aphrodite, Buttercup’s love is unrequited by a brother who prefers to indulge in the art of war and chaos. The result is a hormone-fueled, tragicomic waking nightmare that must be seen to be believed.”
Check out the exclusive Hippo clip below (watch more clips and trailers):
Who stars in Hippo?
Hippo stars Kimball Farley (Ghost Hunt) as Hippo, Lilla Kizlinger (Explanation for Everuir) as Buttercup, Eliza Roberts (National Lampoon’s Animal House) as Ethel, Jesse Pimentel (In the Moment) as Darwin, and Vann Barrett as Dr. Lombardi, with Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) as the narrator.
The film is directed by Mark H. Rapaport, who co-wrote the script with Farley. Executive producers are David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Brandon James, Charmaine Kowalski, and Julian Lawitschka, with Rapaport, Anthony Argento, and Siyu Lin serving as producers.
