Pimp Bullies Trailer

[Nickie Koskinen]

Thefilm is set in the 1970s and it starts off in front of a truck stop where Vicki is getting roughed up by Skid, her narcissistic pimp. Seeing this physical exchange taking place, Charles, who had been working at the truck stop, comes outside with a bat telling Skid to leave her alone. Skid eventually drives off not taking Charles seriously due to his physical condition.

Charles is a 17-year-old high school student who gets constantly bullied because of his physical disability, but finds solace in taking photographs. One day at school Charles's teacher, Mr. Sullivan, announces that a photography contest would be taking place at the school. Intrigued, Charles takes a flyer.

Vicki is an 18-year-old prostitute who lives in a motel room near the truck stop. Vicki relentlessly puts up with her crazy women-hating pimp, Skid, who always wants his cut of the money she makes for hooking.

During one of his shifts Vicki comes in and notices Charles contest flyer and asks him if he is going to enter. Charles expresses that he wants to take photos of the California lighthouses, but that he would need someone to drive him, on account of his physical disability. Vicki then offers to drive Charles around so that he could take pictures of the different lighthouses for his contest.

At the first lighthouse Charles tells Vicki that his mother abandoned him when he was young and that the camera he was using to take the photos belonged to his brother, Kevin, who was killed in Vietnam. To which, Vicki revealed that her father was dead and that her mother kicked her out of the house.

At the second lighthouse Vicki reveals to Charles that her mother kicked her out the house because she thought that Vicki was messing around with one of her boyfriends and that once she was on her own she met Skid. Seeing that Charles and Vicki were getting closer, Peg invites her out to go dancing with her, Charles and a couple of her girlfriends, Vicki agrees. During their night out Vicki persuades Charles to slow dance with her and the two share a kiss.

Then, one day on his way to work, Charles bumps into Skid, Vicki's psychotic pimp, who starts having a conversation with Charles about his disdain towards women, rooted in the fact that he had a bad mother.

Vicki and Charles stop by Vicki's family house for another visit. While looking through old photos of one another, Kate tells Vicki that she is nothing but a whore at which Vicki walks out of the house. Still outside her family's home, and crying, Vicki becomes angry with Charles for persuading her to see her family again and telling him that the only reason she hung out with him was because she felt sorry for him. Days go by, and Vicki stops talking to Charles and stays away from the truck stop. Meanwhile, Charles finally hands in his collection of photos for the contest to which he titles, "Beacon of Light".

Back at home, Charles and his dying father are sitting outside their home, during which time Charles's father tells him how much he loves him and that he is proud of the man he has become. Charles's father passes away a few moments later.

After the funeral, Peg, seeing how Charles was under duress about his father passing away, tells him that she'll always be there for him. Charles ends up placing third in the photography contest. Skid eventually ends up tracking down Vicki and waits for her in her motel room until she arrives. Once Vicki arrives, she asks Skid to leave and tells him that she never stole from him. Skid then throws a stack of money, that Vicki was trying to hide from him, in her face. Skid punches Vicki and pins her down onto the bed.

Charles arrives suddenly and tells Skid to stop hurting Vicki. Skid and Charles get into a physical altercation, at which point Vicki grabs her gun and shoots Skid. The film ends with Charles and Vicki saying goodbye to one another and Vicki driving off down the road while Charles takes picture of her leaving the truck stop.

In March 2012, Evan Peters and Juno Temple were cast in the two leading roles.[2] The film was originally titled Truck Stop. In April 2012, Christine Lahti joined the cast as a character named Peg, Matthew Ziff joined the cast as Kyle, and Meaghan Martin was cast as Sharon.[3][4]

On February 17, 2015, the first theatrical trailer was released for the film.[5] Safelight had its world premiere at the Nashville Film Festival on April 17, 2015,[6] and screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 25, 2015.[7] On June 4, 2015, it was announced ARC Entertainment had acquired distribution rights to the film and set a date for a limited release and video on demand release of July 17, 2015.[1]

On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 0% based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 3.3/10.[8] On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 26 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[9] The Hollywood Reporter stated that in the film "a single dramatic cliche is missed"[10] while Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave it a half star, criticizing everything about the film.[11]

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