Synopsis
Down-on-his-luck Cassius ‘Cash’ Green lands a job at a sleazy telemarketing company. When a colleague teaches him the trick of putting on a ‘white’ voice while phoning clients, Cash is suddenly flush with success, and propelled into the firm’s upper echelon of ‘power callers’. As Cash crosses picket lines into this macabre new universe, he finds himself increasingly at odds with his artist-activist girlfriend and his union-leader buddy. Channeling Michel Gondry and Terry Gilliam, Riley presents a world that initially feels like reality, then gleefully twists into a no-holds-barred satire: about race relations, oppressive capitalism, you name it. The boldness pays off. Sorry to Bother You is a slice of rainbow cake topped with nuclear fuel—weird, propulsive and tasty. CAST & CREDITS