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Podcast: The Locher Room
Episode: Michael Walker and Susan Gomes joined me to talk about The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo, a coming-of-age film drawn from shared memories of suburban New York in 1984.
Description: Director Michael Walker and writer Susan Gomes joined me in The Locher Room to talk about their film The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo.Set in suburban New York in 1984, the film is built from a collection of real experiences Susan and her friends lived through during their high school years. Together, Michael and Susan wove those shared memories into a story centered on a charismatic Spanish exchange student whose arrival disrupts the emotional world of a group of teenage girls and challenges the myths they’ve built about love, friendship, and themselves.<...