List Price: $24.98You Pay Only: $19.99 You Save: $4.99 (20%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780634596
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780634594
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 11798
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 17, 1997
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From Harmony Korine screenwriter of Kids comes a haunting portrait of life in small-town America. Through a collection of dreamlike and devastating images Korine offers a glimpse of Xenia Ohio a world existing in the aftermath of a tornado.Running Time: 95 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043523625
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Typical uber-bitchin' indie flick.
No real plot here, just a lot of socially dysfunctional trash acting the part in southern Ohio. It's interesting like a train-wreck so it doesn't get 1 star. The train-wreck qualities aren't enduring enough to grant it a higher rating though. Supposedly it was originally given an NC-17 but was trimmed down to an R. It makes you wonder how weird the uncut version was.
Rating:  - Documentary-ish as all Harmony Korine films are . . .
I bought this thinking I hadn't seen it - alas, yes I did! I definately remember the scene of the boy in the tub filled with murky water eating a candy bar, and his mother tap dancing in the basement. . .It's not quite as good as it's rated, but I - well, I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, but it is interesting. If you can find that dark place that people retreat to after complete decimation - wrap your head around that - and you can see these people, sadly, but look around they're there. The whole cat thing I could do without - and it's really disheartening if that goes on - but the kid Soloman played by Jacob Reynolds shows some potential in recoverying - although, it's pretty obvious his mother would like to keep him a little boy forever. I've like Jacob Reynolds ever since I saw him in "the road to wellville" - he's not only interesting looking, but he's quite an actor - I'm gonna have to see more flicks he's been in.
Rating: - 90 minute ode to torturing cats.
Watching this film, I was reminded of a a term Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert used to employ to describe schlock near the same level as Gummo back in the day. That term would be "geek show". And no other combination of words describes this film better.
The film revolves around a character whose name I didn't catch. Filmmaker Korrine must've realized before casting began that he was in trouble. This lead character is completely void of any interesting character traits other than the fact that the actor playing him looks like the result of a brother-sister union. Gummo follows this unfortunate character (along with other distasteful characters that populate the film's tornado-ravaged town) through a series of "oh-so-disturbing" scenarios that seem to exist simply to shock the viewer rather than to build towards a cohesive plot. Within the film's ninety minutes viewers are subjected to children struggling to recite essay-length dialogue peppered with every curse word you can imagine and very little else, a brother pimping his mentally challenged, overweight sister, and a group of girls examining a pet cat's nipples (among other places) to determine whether it's pregnant.
Even with all this, Korrine does manage to succeed in some arenas. The scenes with Chloe Sevigny and her sisters(?) were so good that I yearned for them to appear more frequently. In fact, they should've been the movie. And Korrine DOES establish an authentic and memorable setting ... Read More
Rating:  - Exploitation
This film could have ended arbitrarily at any point without sacrificing any meaningfulness, since it had none to begin with. I saw it out of curiosity. The fllm is a mess - it's basically the lowest of lowlives engaging in reprehensible behavior. I wish the tornado had dropped a few houses on these people. They're right out of Deliverance - except that movie was entertaining.
I just waited for this to end. Thank God it finally did.
Rating:  - A must-see for film buffs. This is an important movie.
Harmony Korine outdoes himself in this film by successfully mixing three film approaches/components together: scripted dialogue, improvisation and documentary. This story about the impovershed and somewhat isolated town of Xena, Ohio presents a combination of social commentary, uncomfortable personal interaction and the beauty and tragedy of life. Everyone should see this movie once. It might disturb you, it might make you laugh, but it will definitely effect you.
Browse for similar items by category:
|
