Kimball Farley Archives

Rapaport conceived his latest film, Hippo, alongside co-writer and star Kimball Farley, it was an extension of what Farley crafted in his 2021 short Andronicus Having previously worked with the husband-and-wife duo of Eric Roberts and Eliza Roberts, both were also recruited, with Eliza having an on-screen role as the mother, Ethel, trying to raise[...]

Actors Eric Roberts and Eliza Roberts share a powerful bond with actor Kimball Farley and director Mark H Rapaport since collaborating on the short Andronicus (2021) While Eric has taken a back seat narrating their latest film from Kinematic and Rough House Pictures' Hippo, Eliza is front and center playing Ethel, a single mother[...]

While the couple never share screen time together, Eliza stars as Ethel, the eager-to-please single mother of Hippo (Kimball Farley) and adopted daughter Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger), struggling to find identity in their adolescence Hippo, who's an avid gamer, develops increasingly toxic embracing survivalist tendencies in his isolation At the same time, the religious Buttercup longs[...]

Rapaport and co-writer/star Kimball Farley erode that innocence in the Kinematics & Rough House film Hippo Farley, who plays the title character, is a high-strung gamer steadily becoming a survivalist while living with his mother, Ethel (Eliza Roberts), and his heavily religious Hungarian Catholic stepsister, Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger), who's in a hurry to grow up ignorant[...]

Rapaport crafted the story of Hippo with co-writer and star Kimball Farley, it was a time to reflect on his own upbringing and make sense of what family is The Kinematics & Rough House film follows the title character (Farley), a high-strung gamer steadily becoming a survivalist while living with his mother, Ethel (Eliza Roberts),[...]

Rapaport and co-writer/star Kimball Farley provided their spin on what happens when a family is left to their own devices, and imaginations run wild in the Kinematics & Rough House film Hippo Farley, who plays the title character, is a high-strung gamer steadily becoming a survivalist while living with his mother, Ethel (Eliza Roberts), and[...]