$POSITIONS

Blue-collar Midwesterner Mike Alvarado attempts to save his family from the throes of poverty by investing their savings into speculative cryptocurrencies. However, as his investment strategy decays into a full-blown gambling addiction, he sends his life into a nightmarish anxiety-inducing downward spiral, compromising his relationships with his girlfriend, his developmentally disabled brother, and his recovering addict cousin. A twitchy, hyper-contemporary comedy with equal doses of laughs and panic attacks.

SXSW 2025

“Billy Wilder once said that in act one of a movie, you trap your protagonist in a tree, in the second act you throw rocks lat him, and in the third act you set the tree on fire. “$POSITIONS” follows that structure exactly.”

- RogerEbert.Com