Johnny Be Gone

9/30/2023

There are bright shiny happy films, and then there is "Johnny Be Gone." Johnny (Erik A. Williams) is a confused young man in St. Louis, Missouri. When he isn't sleeping with his constantly high narcoleptic roommate Logan (Joe Hammerstone), Johnny is being bullied by just about everyone he meets. Johnny wants to be a woman, and is referred to as "she" often enough. (S)he decides they want to work at the local sandwich shop run by jerk Jeff (Kevin Stroup), but keeps getting thrown out of the place because they only hire females. Johnny tries dressing up like a girl, but he isn't very good at it, and is humiliated and beaten up. Hurt, he goes to the house of one of the sandwich shop's employees (Katie Deerest), and she shows him some kindness after abusing him earlier in the film. However, Jo