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Gummo

Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.

1997 · 1h 29m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Harmony Korine

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Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

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39%
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Rotten

Enfant terrible Harmony Korine makes a bizarre, idiosyncratic directing debut with his uncompromising look at youth alientaion in Middle-America, whose downbeat tone and off-putting imagery should appeal to small minority of viewers.

Emanuel Levy, Variety
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C'mon, Harmony. Mano a boyo. What are you really trying to prove here?

Paul Tatara, CNN.com
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In real life, this town was devastated by a tornado 20 years ago. According to Korine's version of things, it never recovered.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
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No conceivable competition [this year] will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Korine's debut feature.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
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Korine's objective is so narrow and mean, and his viewpoint so colored by smug, adolescent condescension, that Gummo comes off like a mean-spirited prank.

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

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