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Tangerine

Play trailer Poster for Tangerine R 2015 1h 27m Comedy Drama Crime Play Trailer Watchlist
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After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a transgender sex worker and her best friend set out to find him and teach him and his new lover a lesson.
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Tangerine shatters casting conventions and its filmmaking techniques are up-to-the-minute, but it's an old-fashioned comedy at heart -- and a pretty wonderful one at that.

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Andrea Thompson Chicago Reader Jun 21, 2023
Their bond is largely what transforms another depressing Christmas in LA into a riotous adventure, even as it includes brothels, infidelity, meth, and kidnapping. Go to Full Review Morgan Collado Autostraddle Aug 13, 2021
I enjoyed it... But the way it's set up, how it's shot, the progression of the plot - it's clear that it is offering up the story to a mostly white, bougie audience. It was voyeuristic in the worst possible way. Go to Full Review Mey Rude Autostraddle Aug 13, 2021
Most of the movie's slow-burning heat comes from Mya Taylor's amazingly deep and deliberate - and often uproariously comedic - performance as Alexandra Go to Full Review Jordan Brooks Vague Visages Aug 1, 2023
Baker’s film is a heartfelt rush to the head that extends across racial, sexual, gender and social boundaries. Go to Full Review Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine Jan 23, 2023
Tangerine unostentatiously celebrates fluidity, community, support and is generally quite hearteningly right-on... Go to Full Review Kat Hughes THN Dec 19, 2022
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From a technical standard point, Tangerine is a marvel. Baker’s filmmaking style pioneered modern indie film-making. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Chris S @Chris850 Feb 1, 2026 This film is a riot, those three girls are hilarious, listen closely to the dialogue it’s unbelievable. It’s very subtle. Every character in this is entertaining, even the girl behind the counter at the donut shop. For the first five minutes, I thought it was stupid, then when you see the old guy in the cab, it picks right up. Really well done. See more MariofanAlex445 T @RT47678067 Jan 31, 2026 Sean Baker is really good at making films that don’t shy away from showing you the truth about the society we live in. Sometimes it’s harsh but he always likes to show the humanity in it and that maybe it isn’t so bad after all. The script was pretty well written and had me laughing a bunch, the acting from Kiki and Mya really brought their individual characters to life. I had a lot of fun watching this. See more Patrick S @PatrickStruik Jan 2, 2026 A Sean Baker masterpiece. See more Grant H. @dj530 Nov 4, 2025 Sean Baker’s brilliance started early in his career, as seen in the titular American Dream drama in Tangerine. Taking the viewpoint of multiple story likes and how they overlap, this film captures the daily struggle of the oppressed and misunderstood. Not all is forgiven, but a compromise is met knowing that everyone is human, and everyone make mistakes. See more Albert W @CommonSenseAl Oct 19, 2025 Wow this was bad. Avoid. See more Dave S @RT68722908 Oct 5, 2025 About 10 seconds into Tangerine, I put things on pause and Googled “is Tangerine a high school media arts project shot on an iPhone?” Turns out the iPhone part was correct – the rest, not so much. Once you get past the weird aesthetic, the erratic editing, the distracting score, some weird shot selections, and director Sean Baker’s odd obsession with sex trade workers, you come to realize that there is a point to all the mayhem thanks to some really smart dialogue and characters who turn out to be more vulnerable than they first appear to be. Is it all worth the journey? Maybe. Maybe not. But at least it makes the effort. See more Read all reviews
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Sean Baker

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Kitana Kiki Rodriguez

Sin-Dee

Mya Taylor

Alexandra

Karren Karagulian

Razmik

Mickey O'Hagan

Dinah

James Ransone

Chester

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Synopsis After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a transgender sex worker and her best friend set out to find him and teach him and his new lover a lesson.
Director
Sean Baker
Producer
Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou
Screenwriter
Sean Baker
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Duplass Brothers, Through Films
Rating
R (Drug Use|Disturbing Sexual Content|Graphic Nudity|Language Throughout|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Crime
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 10, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$701.8K
Runtime
1h 27m
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