Fort Tilden

This wry comedy from filmmakers Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers evokes Martin Scorsese's dysfunctional-NYC odyssey After Hours, replacing the yuppie era with the millennial age. The callow twentysomething heroines, both jobless, live well in New York thanks to parental handouts. Harper (Bridey Elliott) is an idle "artist," while roommate Allie (Clare McNulty) has enlisted in the Peace Corps, although only because it gives her a reason to brag in an otherwise self-centered, rudderless existence. On the day before Allie is to undergo her orientation for Africa (a place about which she actually knows and cares nothing), the pair head to a beach rendezvous point, where guys and drugs supposedly await them. But their urban journey is sabotaged by crime, hostile ride-shares, and fruitless interactions with equally clueless peers. A quirky indie comedy, this is recommended. (C. Cassady)