Pumpkin (2002)
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38% of critics liked it
(72 reviews) -
54% of users liked it
(11,630 ratings)
Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are… More Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are put off by the activity. Carolyn's discomfort begins to dissipate after meeting Pumpkin Romanoff (Hank Harris), a young man in a wheelchair who has dreams of competing in the shot put. Slowly, Carolyn falls in love with Pumpkin, sending her into conflict with her boyfriend Kent (Sam Ball), her sisters, and Pumpkin's mother (Brenda Blethyn). This film was screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Directed By
- Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder
- Written By
- Adam Larson Broder
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jun 28, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- MGM
Critic Reviews
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Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
This is the sort of Pumpkin that really deserves to be smashed.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
By presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world, Pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so.
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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Though Pumpkin extends its jaundiced joke too far, it's almost worth it for Ricci's final scene, which tells us everything we need to know about what will become of her.
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Scott Steinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Weird. Rewarding.
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Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
Would be considered an interesting failure, only it isn't all that interesting.
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Cast
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Christina Ricci
as Carolyn McDuffy
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Hank Harris
as Pumpkin Romanoff
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Brenda Blethyn
as Judy Romanoff
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Dominique Swain
as Jeanine Kryszinsky
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Marisa Coughlan
as Julie Thurber
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Samuel Ball
as Kent Woodlands
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Harry J. Lennix
as Robert Meary
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Nina Foch
as Betsy Collander
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Caroline Aaron
as Claudia Prinsinger
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Lisa Banes
as Chippy McDuffy
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Julio Oscar Mechoso
as Dr. Frederico Cruz
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Phil Reeves
as Burt Wohlfert
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Tasha Smith
as Hansie Prinsinger
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Michael Bacall
as Casey Whitner
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Erinn Bartlett
as Corinne
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Michelle Krusiec
as Anne Chung
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Melissa McCarthy
as Cici Pinkus
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Shaun Weiss
as Randy Suskind
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Ginny Schreiber
as Diana
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Amy Adams
as Alex
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Margaret Travolta
as Vera Whitner
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Julia Vera
as Ramona Ramirez
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Marissa Parker
as Courtney Burke
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Elsie Escobar
as Sascha Santiago
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Shane Mikael Johnson
as Jeremy
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John Henry Binder
as Newscaster
- Marisa Petroro
