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'Potato Dreams of America' Review: Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Is a Film of Two Very Different Halves 'Potato Dreams of America' Review: Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Is a Film of Two Very Different Halves Russian-American director Wes Hurley expands his SXSW-winning short into an autobiographical feature that mixes structural surprises with more hackneyed conventions. Guy Lodge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Wes Hurley With: Marya Sea Kaminksi, Tyler Bocock, Sera Barbieri, Hersh Powers, Dan Lauria, Lea DeLaria, Jonathan Bennett, Sophia Mitri Schloss. Running time: Running time: 96 MIN. Courtesy of SXSW The question of how to convey characters speaking a language other than English in a fully English-language production is one that many a director of an exotically-set Hollywood production or lumpy Europudding has faced over the years. For those who simply cannot resort to subtitles, the artifice of heavily accented English dialogue is a stilted standby. “Potato Dreams of America” finds an unusual way around the problem, though it takes some time for its cleverness to emerge.