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Actor: Bryant L. Crenshaw, Charles Matthew Coatney, Darby Dougherty, James Glass (II), Wendall CarrBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Sewell, Jacob
Primary Contributor: Sutton, Nick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product features:
- 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 Rating:?R Age:?794043523625 UPC:?794043523625 Manufacturer No:?N
Movie Reviews of Gummo
Movie Review: American Grotesque
Summary: 4 Stars
I had to watch "Gummo" in several sittings. It is unrelentingly grotesque. That is not necessarily a bad thing, though. American Grotesque has been a staple of American literature and art since the beginning.
"Gummo" dives into the town of Xenia OH. several years after a series of catastrophic tornadoes hit the town. The denizens who we meet are a traumatized lot. They get through their days by killing, and occasionally torturing cats, pimping the mentally disabled, trashing their own houses, huffing glue, and committing incest. The kids, as befits the writer of Kids, carry the narrative, insofar as there is a narrative.
My initial impression was that the film is an elitist enterprise aimed at demonstrating the irredeemable depravity of "poor white trash" - an urban caricature of a hick town. Now I'm not so sure. Anyone who has spent time in white working-class neighborhoods will have their buttons pressed. The film resonated with me - which was disturbing. The characters are way too familiar. I grew up around kids with BB guns who shot cats. (Although I doubt that they sold the carcasses to the local Chinese take-out, as happens here.) The kids around me huffed anything they could get their hands on. The aimlessness of life gets inside of you, and eventually sickens you. That's "Gummo".
I suggest that the key to the flick is the fate of the cats. Extrapolate from them, and you understand what is happening to Xenia, OH.
4 out of 5 though...the editing can be choppy or non-existent. There are some key scenes in the movie - spaghetti in the bathtub for example. But there are a lot of slow moments that only serve to underscore what has already been presented, and these can be exhausting.
Summary of Gummo
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.Action & Adventure DVD Video
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