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Chloë Sevigny, Darby Dougherty, Jacob Reynolds, Jacob Sewell, Jason Guzak
Some time after a devastating tornado has leveled their town, a group of eclectic, ennui-stricken teenagers in Xenia, Ohio pass their days by riding their bikes, playing practical jokes, sniffing glue...( read more
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Id: 10380282
This is a great little film. It won?t be to everybody?s tastes but it?s a gem, albeit, a grubby one . Harmony Korine is an underappreciated genius!
A largely plotless, impressionistic and depressing tour of the hopeless white trash residents of Xenia, OH. A lot like what would result if someone took home videos of that embarassing welfare-addicted branch of the family no one likes to talk about and mixed them in a blender w...( read more)
A pointless, depressing and vile piece of crap. There are no characters to feel anything for, other than hate. The film is just tasteless in a very tacky way, but it seems to think it is saying something. There's no plot, there's no relevance. It's a string of random scenes, wher...( read more)
Intriguing beginning and end, but nothing of much interest happens in between. Not to say there aren't interesting characters (there are); they just don't really do anything. That is, I wanted something to laugh or cry about it but got neither (perhaps, I'm an emotionless psychop...( read more)
I tell you true, I could not take my eyes off this film. I'm not sure what exactly that means in terms of me, but it is an ugly movie from start to finish. The ugliness, from mistreatment of animals, to mistreatment of persons with disabilities, to mistreatment of people in gen...( read more)
"Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead."
Hypnotizing, offbeat beauty is interwoven with disturbing imagery in Harmony Korine's directorial debut. In all of its pseudo-dreamlike weirdness Gummo carries the aura of...( read more)
The story, what little there is of one, follows a couple of punks who shoot neighborhood cats, a kid who runs around shirtless in a bunny hat, a dwarf, an albino, a prostitute with Downs Syndrome, and a host of other freaks.
Stupid, idiotic, offensive and the most disgustic f...( read more)
It seemed somewhat interesting to read about, but knowing about the treatment of cats in the movie turned me off completely, whether they're fake or real (hopefully not) is what made me turn away a movie that could've seemed promising, but not for me.
