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AS WE GET OLDER, DO WE BECOME VERSIONS of our parents? And if not, how did we evolve differently? That’s what Michael Angarano explores in Sacramento. “My parents have been together since they were 19, and by the time they were 30, they already had three kids and started their own business. When I was 30, I was just starting to go to therapy.” The film follows childhood friends Rickey (Angarano) and Glenn (Michael Cera) as they grapple, over the course of an impromptu road trip, with the realities of how we change as we get older. “Glenn and Rickey are just another iteration of what our fathers were, and trying to change that somehow, but not really quite knowing where to start.” Angarano, who also directed and cowrote the film, knows most people recognize him from his work as a child actor on shows like Will & Grace and films like Lords of Dogtown. “Here’s the truth— I still recognize myself from those things. I’m not that far removed.” But he says all of those projects were “the building blocks. I couldn’t have had Sacramento without those things.”
—H. Alan Scott