They ran from their past—but the road had other plans
In Frank and Penelope, director Sean Patrick Flanery crafts a haunting odyssey through the blistering American Southwest—where love collides with madness, and every mile forward peels back another layer of darkness.
Frank (Billy Budinich), a man broken by betrayal and loss, stumbles upon Penelope (Caylee Cowan), a magnetic dancer with her own hidden wounds. Their meeting is explosive, tender, and strangely inevitable. What begins as a spontaneous escape quickly morphs into a perilous journey of self-discovery, where desire and danger are indistinguishable.
As the two outsiders drive deeper into the barren unknown, they are lured into a surreal, almost mythic small town—where morality dissolves and a cult-like force waits in the shadows. Trapped between a hostile world and the demons they carry inside, Frank and Penelope must confront the cost of their choices in a place where fate isn’t just cruel—it’s watching.
Stylistically raw and emotionally charged, Frank and Penelope blends gritty road-trip rebellion with dark spiritual undertones. Think Natural Born Killers meets True Romance, but with a Lynchian twist that rattles both the nerves and the soul.
It’s a tale about the extremes we’ll go to for love, the lies we’ll believe to survive, and the painful truth that sometimes, the only way out is through fire.
