Plot
Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.
Release Year: 1997
Rating: 6.1/10 (12,480 voted)
Director:
Harmony Korine
Stars: Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh
Storyline Xenia, Ohio, is a small poor and boring city that never fully recovered after a tornado in the 1970s. Teenager Solomon and his slightly older friend Tummler, have nothing to do but kill time, buying glue to sniff and get high.
Cast: Jacob Sewell
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Bunny Boy
Nick Sutton
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Tummler
Lara Tosh
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Girl in Car
Jacob Reynolds
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Solomon
Darby Dougherty
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Darby
Chloë Sevigny
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Dot
(as Chloe Sevigny)
Carisa Glucksman
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Helen
Jason Guzak
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Skinhead #1
Casey Guzak
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Skinhead #2
Wendall Carr
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Huntz
James Lawhorn
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Cowboy #1
James Glass
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Cowboy #2
Ellen M. Smith
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Ellen
Charles Matthew Coatney
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Eddie
Harmony Korine
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Boy on Couch
Opening Weekend: $19,820
(USA)
(19 October 1997)
(3 Screens)
Gross: $19,820
(USA)
(19 October 1997)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
In the screenplay, Bunny Boy talks, but only during the scene in the swimming pool. He also explains why he has the word MAC tattooed on his fingers: "My parents like to call me that. Mac spelled backward is Cam. Cam is their favorite car... Camaro." He also claims he was born with one fully grown tooth, and his parents "wanted to name me Plak."
Goofs:
Continuity:
The kid sitting next to Jared Wiggley's arm and head change positions between shots.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Solomon:
[voiceover]
Xenia, Ohio. Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a tornado hit this place. It killed the people, left and right. Dogs died. Cats died. Houses were split open, and you could see necklaces hanging from branches of trees. People's legs and neck bones were sticking out...
User Review
A Surprisingly Unique Movie
Rating:
I will admit that the reason I rented this movie was because of the numerous
reviews that I read about how unbelievably bad and pointless this film was.
It only took me a few minutes to realize why so many critics hated it, which
was the very reason I liked this film.
Gummo is a classic case of style over substance. If you're looking for plot
development, you'd better go rent Good Will Hunting or something like that.
But if you want to see a movie that is cutting-edge and well ahead of its
time, then rent this one. I praise the director for simply doing something
different.
What impressed me the most about this film was the framing of one memorable
image after another. I think Director Korine was trying to leave people
with impressions and feelings. Whether you like this film or not, its
impossible to forget. Plus, this film has what I think is one of the
greatest lines in recent movie history. A little girl, holding a picture of
Burt Reynolds with the mouth ripped out, chants incessantly, "I want a
moustache, dammit!"
This movie is worth the three bucks to rent it if nothing more than to see
the scene where a fat redneck takes out his aggression on a kitchen chair
while his friends cheer him on. It's more frightening than anything in the
Scream series.
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