C'mon C'mon

Johnny is a good-hearted yet emotionally blocked radio journalist on his latest story: traveling around the United States to interview children from the whole country and find out what they think of the world and the future. One day his sister Viv asks him to look after her eight-year-old son Jesse while she takes care of Jesse’s father, a man with mental health issues. Johnny agrees to spend time with the child, and somewhat unexpectedly, uncle and nephew form a close bond, full of tenderness, that will change them both, as they set off on an unforgettable road trip to Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT With C’mon C’mon, I wanted to play with opposing scales. On the one hand the film is about the smallest of moments: giving a kid a bath, talking before bedtime. On the other, you’re traveling to big cities, hearing young people think out loud about their futures and the world’s future, so the intimate story is happening in the context of a far larger one. I often feel this same spectrum with my kid: our time together is so private, yet the biggest concerns of life are all there.
Johnny has to learn everything a parent learns but very, very fast. As a father, I’ve found that you feel you’re constantly a novice, trying to keep up as things shift, and this was a way of recreating that confusion, that always being not quite ready for what’s happening.
I knew I wanted unscripted moments with real kids. Most interesting was just seeing how resiliently these kids approach the world.