A drama story follows a young woman, her drunken boyfriend, and her 8 year old son, who face hard times, as they move from one hotel to another. They had a miserable life till the discovery of a mobile home community that offers an stabled life.
Boasts a few pleasingly poetic flourishes, but it suffers from some common first-time director flaws, notably a listless narrative, thinly developed characters and a relentlessly somber mood.
Poots gives it her best shot, playing Ali as a woman who's spent far too long staying one step ahead of the consequences she knows are coming, but there's nothing to Mobile Homes that merits the effort.
Driving a van and living in motels, these are low-level grifters whose pathetic American Dream is to become trailer trash. Their roads lead to nowhere. So too does this rootless, desolation-adoring film.
