Dandelion

Writer/director Nicole Riegel's latest indie follows the titular Cincinnati singer-songwriter (KiKi Layne), who has never gotten her big break and is starting to question if it will ever happen for her. In a last-ditch effort, she takes a gig at a South Dakota motorcycle rally, where she meets a handsome guitarist (Thomas Doherty) who has long since given up on the dream Dandelion still believes in. The movie has some nice music, but, as a character study, it's a bit generic.

It's a quintessential Millennial movie, featuring a scene where the singer/songwriter protagonist, performing at her lame hotel bar gig, blows her top and righteously lectures the people who have disrespected her by not listening to her songs. Were she a Boomer, she would have accepted that gigs like this are paid rehearsals, even if the pay is little more than a free drink. Of course, I can't be too glib on this point because were this a Gen-X movie, we'd see her blow her top and yell at the obnoxious talkers, but then there'd be a smash cut to reveal that the exchange was all in her imagination—what we get here is certainly no worse than that!