close-knit

The largest began in a close-knit community with low vaccination rates in Texas’ Gaines County, adjacent to New Mexico.

An Ojai transplant himself, the actor is dedicated to preserving the integrity of the close-knit community while fostering its artistic growth.

Jackson, a peaceful safe haven and home to a close-knit community, is destroyed by infected monsters while Joel, the only safe space and home Ellie has ever known, is killed by human monsters.

It’s also close-knit and small, a fertile environment for slights to fester.

This sense of shared history — even a history never seen or expressed — helps to ground the close-knit foursome of friends the actors portray in “The Wedding Banquet.”