Gummo
1997
Gummo is a sad tale about a town that never fully recovered from a giant tornado. Read more
| Starring | Jacob Sewell, Nick Sutton, Lara Tosh |
|---|---|
| Director | Harmony Korine |
| Genres | Drama |
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Gummo
Gummo is a sad tale about a town that never fully recovered from a giant tornado.
| Starring | Jacob Sewell, Nick Sutton, Lara Tosh |
|---|---|
| Director | Harmony Korine |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 25 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 1997 |
| Format | DVD |
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This impressionistic portrait of a half-imaginary Midwestern suburb confirms Harmony (Kids) Korine as a creative force... read more on Time Out
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14 out of 18 people found this review helpful
Cock-a-Doodle Doo!
If your at a loose end and there is nothing on the box, rent Gummo. Arm-wrestling dwarfs, dead cats, cross dressing teens and a boy with a cone shaped head eating spaghetti bolognese in the bath. Wicked.
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6 out of 9 people found this review helpful
america the great
This film aptly summarizes the darkness and beauty of America the apathetic, mundane and inadvertently cruel. Rather than offering any particular narrative type tale, essentially this is a series of fragmented shards; scenes that all seem to subtly add up to reflecting the inanity of surburbia looking to Hollywood as it's totem deity.
If you're of the opinion that the mainstream suffers from a deep psychological bent, and that the trivial gloss sheen of glamour is one full of cracks and illness.. then this is one hell of a film. -
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Mister Lonely
- 10 Mar 2008
Harmony Korine is a character. He was just 18 years old when Larry Clark filmed his screenplay, Kids (1995), a portrait of sexually predatory New York teenagers that scandalized their parents. He went out with Kids star Chloe Sevigny for several years and quickly directed two films of his own. Gummo (1997) is an in-your-face provocation involving teenage misfits, retards and faded child star Linda Manz. It's strong beer, and not recommended to those of a squeamish disposition, but full of... Read more
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Gummo is a sad tale about a town that never fully recovered from a giant tornado....
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