Now that Sean Baker is the toast of Hollywood, hot off his armful of Oscars for Anora, we’re taking a look back at an early, lo-fi film from the days before he was even an indie darling. The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Take Out, which Baker co-wrote, co-directed, and co-edited with Shih-Ching Tsou in 2004, an early foray into tales of people scraping by on the margins.
