Fresh
An offbeat thriller that is deepened -- rather than derailed -- by its tricky shift from darkly funny to just plain dark.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Leaves of Grass
Drugs, Murder, and Brotherly Love.
2009 · 1h 44m · R
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Tim Blake Nelson
Overview
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Director and cast
- Tim Blake Nelson Director
- Susan Sarandon as Daisy Kincaid
- Richard Dreyfuss as Pug Rothbaum
- Keri Russell as Janet
- Melanie Lynskey as Colleen
- Edward Norton as Bill Kincaid / Brady Kincaid
- Lucy DeVito as Anne Greenstein
- Kent Jude Bernard as Philosophy Student
- Amelia Campbell as Maggie Harmon
- Tim Blake Nelson as Bolger
- Randal Reeder as Shaver
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As a writer-director, Nelson keeps the laughs coming at a steady pace, and never condescends to his articulate redneck characters.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh
Mr. Norton is a pleasure to watch, and so is everyone else.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
Rotten
It's not the violence itself that bothers me, it's just that it completely destroys the tone of the movie.
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
Rotten
You could get whiplash from his movie's mood swings.
Michael Phillips, At the Movies
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