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More Neon Love As ‘Babes’ Blasts Off Stateside – Specialty Box Office
Neon's 'Babes' with Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau had a great expansion with the indie film in the top ten at the domestic box office.
The film follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) who grew up together in NYC but are now firmly in different phases of adulthood. The film, which premiered in Cannes a year ago, has an 86% with RT critics and solid word of mouth from its festival run, which also included TIFF and NYFF among others. The historical drama begins in 1858 in the Jewish quarter of Bologna when the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family and abduct their six-year-old son Edgardo.
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