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7 Chinese Brothers

Failure has a new overachiever

2015 · 1h 15m · N/A Comedy
Directed by Bob Byington

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Overview

Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?

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75%
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Rotten

The film never allows the audience to truly get to know any of the characters in Larry's world, a world in which their uniform shirts emblazoned with company logos and their first names serve as reminders of their lot in life.

Miriam Di Nunzio, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

By widening his soulful puppy eyes - matched only, quite eerily, by those of his French bulldog in real life, Arrow - Schwartzman successfully dares audiences to care.

Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Schwartzman ... gives Larry enough humanity and a modicum of personal growth that you keep coming back for more.

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Rotten

Writer-director Bob Byington showed potential as a social satirist with his provocative 2008 indie RSO (Registered Sex Offender), but this slacker comedy lacks any such venom.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

The sharpest moments cast mundane struggles in a nearly spiritual light.

Richard Brody, New Yorker

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