Tangerine

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Tangerine

R

2015

1h 27m

Comedy

Drama

Crime

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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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Critics Consensus

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

Jan 23, 2023

Tangerine unostentatiously celebrates fluidity, community, support and is generally quite hearteningly right-on...

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Kat Hughes

THN

Dec 19, 2022

4/5

From a technical standard point, Tangerine is a marvel. Baker’s filmmaking style pioneered modern indie film-making.

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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.

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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.

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Patrick S

@PatrickStruik Jan 2, 2026

A Sean Baker masterpiece.

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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.

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Albert W

@CommonSenseAl Oct 19, 2025

Wow this was bad. Avoid.

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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.

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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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