Pumpkin

Name: Pumpkin
Genre: Drama, Sport, Comedy, Romance
Released: June 28, 2002
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris

2002

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United Artists | Release Date: June 28, 2002 | TV-MA

Starring: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris

Summary: A satirical comedy about a college sorority girl (Ricci) who finds herself drawn into a relationship with a young disabled man (Harris).

Director: Adam Larson Broder and Anthony Abrams

Genre(s): Drama, Sport, Comedy, Romance

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 113 min

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Roger Ebert

Is alive, and takes chances, and uses the wicked blade of satire in order to show up the complacent political correctness of other movies in its campus genre. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

An odd and oddly endearing romantic black comedy. Read full review

Chris Jones

Wildly uneven but nonetheless intriguing and funny. Read full review

Scott Tobias

The film doesn't seem to know how it feels, much less how others are supposed to feel about it. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Off sorority row, the movie goes flat for increasingly long stretches, with the filmmakers displaying so little understanding of or genuine feeling for the mentally challenged that they never advance past stutter-and-stumble humor. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The satire is broad and easy, while the romance is thoroughly unconvincing. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

An amazing film amazingly tasteless, tin-eared and awkward, but amazing all the same. Anyone with a predilection for bad movies might want to see it, if only in an inspecting-the-wreckage spirit, since because movies this misguided come but once or twice a year. Read full review

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ScottC.

Mar 2, 2007

Maybe this is my new favorite movie. Only time will tell. I haven't seen a movie this compassionate, fascinating, and so emotionally powerful in a long time, though. In watching it, I was reminded of a quote by Pauline Kael, who said she could tell immediately whether she and someone Maybe this is my new favorite movie. Only time will tell. I haven't seen a movie this compassionate, fascinating, and so emotionally powerful in a long time, though. In watching it, I was reminded of a quote by Pauline Kael, who said she could tell immediately whether she and someone could potentially be friends based on the movies the person liked. If you don't like this movie, it doesn't mean something's wrong with you. It just means you and I could never be friends, because this movie was a piece of work, borne straight out of the heart, and most likely if you don't like it, it's because you can't personally identify with the events described. It's the most hopeful movie I've seen in years.… Expand

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meeeew

Jan 30, 2022

So good. Makes it even better that the people it's satirizing hate it. I was cracking up half the film.

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nascent

May 29, 2012

A strange movie, that mixes satire and moralistic drama. In it's satire it works quite well, similar in tone to Wet Hot American Summer. But it then also has the dramatic, emotional romance that it tries to mix into the rest of the film. Sometimes the balance works great, but others itA strange movie, that mixes satire and moralistic drama. In it's satire it works quite well, similar in tone to Wet Hot American Summer. But it then also has the dramatic, emotional romance that it tries to mix into the rest of the film. Sometimes the balance works great, but others it just spoils the tone. It's as if American Psycho and Pride and Prejudice were edited together. I feel like it compares a lot to the movie Saved, which came out a couple of years after Pumpkin. I feel works a lot better, it mixes comedy with romantic drama a lot more fluently in a similar elitist-school setting, and I just wish Pumpkin didn't have to be quite so heavy-handed in it's moralistic journey.… Expand

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