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Harry + Max

Brothers like no others.

2004 · 1h 14m · N/A Drama, Romance
Directed by Christopher Munch

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Overview

Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past--Harry's drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with Max and the emotional dependency that keeps them from moving into adulthood.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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5%
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Rotten

Though Williams and Johnson fit comfortably into the European naturalism that's become Munch's stock in trade, they can't quite wriggle out of his high-concept premise and become plausibly real.

Scott Tobias, AV Club
Rotten

Seems like the work of a novice, with self-conscious expository passages and emotionally false conversations.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

To consider Harry and Max as being about incestuous feelings would be shortchanging it, because the film is really about the evolving nature of love and the need to define it.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

The movie is a congeries of half-formed ideas about pansexuality and other social taboos, but Munch fails to accomplish what he seemingly sets out to do.

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
Rotten

Provocative without being especially thoughtful or credible.

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

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