Greener Grass is a 2019 American surrealist satirical black comedy film written and directed by Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe in their feature directorial debuts.
It stars DeBoer, Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, Janicza Bravo, and D'Arcy Carden.
Jill Davies is a housewife who lives in a bizarre, unnamed suburban town, where all the adults wear dental braces and drive golf carts instead of cars.
Nick delights in playing with his newly athletic "son", but Jill misses Julian as he used to be, and their marriage begins to fray.
Manic and distraught, Jill rides her golf cart out of town and onto the highway, stopping near a cow pasture to remove her braces with wire cutters.
[3][4] In October 2018, it was announced that DeBoer, Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D'Arcy Carden, Janicza Bravo, Dot-Marie Jones, Jim Cummings, Lauren Adams, Asher Miles Fallica, Julian Hilliard, and John Milhiser had joined the cast of the film, with DeBoer and Luebbe directing from a screenplay they wrote.
The website's critics consensus reads, "Greener Grass is far from the first comedy to skewer suburbia – but it might be among the most bizarre and surreally distinctive.
[16] Peter Debruge of Variety called the film "an odd and wonderfully upbeat absurdist take on the American dream.
"[17] Andee Tagle of NPR wrote, "Greener Grass may feel more like a long series of sketches than a feature-length film – but comedy aside, the punchy, Wes Anderson-meets-80's-music-video aesthetic of cinematographer Lowell A. Meyer, matched with Lauren Oppelt's impeccable costume design, offer delights of their own.