Five Time Champion (2012)
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A young man struggles to make sense of life and love as confusion reigns in his family in this quirky independent comedy from filmmaker Berndt Mader. Julius (Ryan Akin) is a high school student who is obsessed with his science experiments involving worm reproduction. Julius may well be fascinated… More A young man struggles to make sense of life and love as confusion reigns in his family in this quirky independent comedy from filmmaker Berndt Mader. Julius (Ryan Akin) is a high school student who is obsessed with his science experiments involving worm reproduction. Julius may well be fascinated with worm sexuality since many of the signals he gets about human interaction are rather puzzling. His father abandoned the family and is said to be gay, and his mother (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson), who dabbles in taxidermy, has two boyfriends -- one a cheerful slacker (Justin Arnold), the other the gung-ho baseball coach at Julius's school (Jon Gries). Julius has a girlfriend (Noell Coet), but while she wants to move the relationship to a more physical level, he's wary. And Julius's grandfather (Don Pirl) is spending a lot of time with one of his ex-girlfriends (Juli Erickson), much to the annoyance of his wife (Betty Buckley). Will Julius figure out what he wants from life, and who he should spend it with? Five Times Champion received its world premiere at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Berndt Mader
- Written By
- Berndt Mader
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 27, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
Critic Reviews
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Rachel Saltz, New York Times
Deliberately small-scale, "Five Time Champion" has tough-minded moments but too often veers toward the sweet and even the treacly.
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Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
Rule of thumb: If a movie about how life is messy features someone lecturing about how messy life is, that movie is not nearly messy enough to do justice to life.
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, Boxoffice Magazine
It's not just the little film that could, it could be the last honest movie in Texas.
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Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
With every landscape cutaway and twinkling note from its xylophone-heavy score, it begs to be taken as a dreamy slice of countryside profundity.
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