Jacob Tremblay Episodes

The Sovereign Citizen movement is a real, growing phenomenon in which adherents believe they are exempt from government authority and can invoke pseudo-legal arguments to avoid any legal obligation. The movement has a documented history of tipping into violence when confronted by law enforcement. This film is based on one of those documented cases.Nick Offerman plays the father — a roofer who has become a travelling evangelist for sovereign ideology, charging desperate and financially ruined people a thousand dollars a night to learn how to "tie the system up in knots." Jacob Tremblay plays his sixteen-year-old son Joe, who has been homeschooled since the age of ten and whose quiet desperation for a normal life runs through every scene.The dads discuss:The father-son relationship. At first — and this is important — it looks warm. The father is conscientious, engaged, asks about homework, makes a fuss. It's only gradually that the ideology becomes visible, and by then you'r…