Stuff and Dough

Name: Stuff and Dough
Genre: Drama
Released: April 23, 2008
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 76

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Mitropoulos Films | Release Date: April 23, 2008

Summary: Ovidiu, a young man who runs his own business selling snacks and soft drinks out of his parents' apartment, wants to expand and buy a kiosk, but he doesn't have the "dough." A local mafioso offers him an impressive amount of money for an apparently simple job: he has to take a bag to Bucharest to a specific address. It seems, however, thatOvidiu, a young man who runs his own business selling snacks and soft drinks out of his parents' apartment, wants to expand and buy a kiosk, but he doesn't have the "dough." A local mafioso offers him an impressive amount of money for an apparently simple job: he has to take a bag to Bucharest to a specific address. It seems, however, that the bag contains some "stuff" that concerns other people, too. Convinced at first that he has sold only his services, Ovidiu will understand that he has in fact sold his soul. (Mitropoulos Films)… Expand

Director: Cristi Puiu

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 90 min

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V.A. Musetto

Low-budget triumph. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

It's a terrific little movie, gritty, real, ironic, ruthless and deeply humane. Read full review

A.O. Scott

The brilliance of Stuff and Dough is that it wraps this powerful, disturbing drama in an anecdote from ordinary life. As is often the case in recent Romanian movies, the acting is so accomplished as to be invisible. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Dryly funny, deceptively simple road movie that quietly reveals the state of contemporary Romanian life. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Puiu seems content to embrace the dynamism of youth and possibility; if "Lazarescu" was a movie of dead ends, Stuff and Dough is one, quite literally, of open roads. Read full review

Sam Adams

There's no question of the mood Puiu means to capture, the sullen anomie of a rootless generation, but too often, he's just spinning his wheels. Read full review

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StanleyKubrick

Jul 28, 2016

This was the true starting point of the 'Romanian New Wave' that later became an international art house sensation. It's difficult to put this small, but potent film into a category, but it's funny like a good comedy, thrilling like a suspense film and moving like a drama, but without any ofThis was the true starting point of the 'Romanian New Wave' that later became an international art house sensation. It's difficult to put this small, but potent film into a category, but it's funny like a good comedy, thrilling like a suspense film and moving like a drama, but without any of the cheesiness of typical genre filmmaking, because it looks and feels as real as a documentary. The dry humor is similar to Jarmusch's work, but without his artsy style. The conflicts are local and universal at the same time. Fresh direction, acting, screenplay. A small masterpiece.… Expand

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