C.O.G. (2013, Jonathan Groff, Denis O’Hare, Corey Stoll, Dean Stockwell, Casey Wilson, Troian Bellisario, Dale Dickey) – Classic Movie Review 13,946

Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s 2013 American comedy drama film C.O.G. stars Jonathan Groff. along with Denis O’Hare, Casey Wilson, Dean Stockwell, Troian Bellisario, and Dale Dickey.

Writer/ director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s 2013 American comedy drama film C.O.G. stars Jonathan Groff. along with Denis O’Hare, Casey Wilson, Dean Stockwell, Troian Bellisario, and Dale Dickey. C.O.G. aka Child of God, is based on a short story by David Sedaris from his book Naked, his first story filmed.

Jonathan Groff is very appealing as a confident, super-bright, wityy young man, a recent Yale graduate who decides to go off the grid to work in Oregon on an apple farm, where he finds his lifestyle and ideas under scrutiny and even attack from the town’s migrant workers and deeply religious locals. His name is David but he tells people his name is Samuel.

C.O.G. is a quirky, consistently amusing, sometimes funny, sometimes challenging, then strongly finished comedy drama, with a real good cast to punch it over. Like the hero, it has got a lot of awkward ideas in its head, pleasingly expressed, that is with a smile but a heavy heart. There’s quite a bit of very strong, colourful language, right from the start.

C.O.G. was filmed on location in Forest Grove, Oregon, in October 2012.

Jonathan Groff publicly came out as gay to a reporter during the National Equality March in October 2009.

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