This is only one of the film’s pointlessly uncomfortable elements. Another is Cam’s idea to kidnap Mazz’s young child. Cam is not cut out for kidnapping — he’s barely cut out for convenience-store shopping.

Things go grotesquely wrong from the start, but Cam has an out, of sorts. When Mazz wants to go on a wild-goose chase looking for the toddler, he calls on Cam — not knowing that his offspring is unconscious in the trunk of the car from which he’s conducting the search.

“American Dreamer” turns over several repellent plot points before settling on a cheap ironic ending. Not even a month after the John Travolta travesty “The Fanatic” seemed to have secured the title of Worst Film of 2019, up comes this movie to overtake it. By several lengths.

American Dreamer

Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes.