My Divorce Party

On the weekend before finalizing Xan’s divorce, she decides to gather her closest comrades in Joshua Tree to relax, celebrate, and more appropriately, sulk. The gang arrives at their less than tranquil lodging, an RV park in Joshua Tree (no, it isn’t a ‘low-key’ chic one). They meet their “eccentric” neighbors Ezekiel, a pansexual hick, and Amara, and an Instagram bohemian hippie. That evening, Xan drunkenly spirals out and reveals that she’ll have to give up half of all her assets to her soon-to-be ex in the divorce settlement come Monday, so she drained her bank account and brought $100K in cash to the desert. She starts throwing the money into the bonfire before her friends spring into action and stop her. Lines are soon drawn as every friend has a different opinion on what Xan should do with the money, but Xan has her own thoughts on how the money is best used, and that decision is going to make for one hell of a weekend divorce party. (Cinequest Festival)