C.O.G. (2013) on Netflix
David, a Yale graduate, leaves his privileged life to pick apples in Oregon, calling himself Samuel. Out of his element, he tries to fit in with the orchard workers and churchgoing locals.
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Plot summary
David leaves Yale wanting experience outside his comfortable upbringing and heads to Oregon to work at an apple farm, where he goes by Samuel. Among the people he meets is Jon, a religious man in recovery from alcoholism who shows him how to build clocks shaped like the state. Martha, a young Christian mother, offers him a room in her house. Hobbs, who owns a farm, hires him and arranges work at an apple factory, where Debbie stands beside him on the assembly line. His friend Jennifer leaves him on his own soon after he arrives, and Curly, who drives a forklift at the plant, takes a flirtatious interest in him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about C.O.G. (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- C.O.G. is based on a David Sedaris short story from his essay collection Naked, and it was the first time any of Sedaris's stories had ever been made into a film.
- The film's central character is loosely based on David Sedaris as a young man, when he traveled to Oregon and took on the occupation of an apple picker.
