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The Color Wheel

An objectionable comedy about disappointment and forgiveness.

2011 · 1h 23m · NOT RATED Comedy, Romance
Directed by Alex Ross Perry

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Overview

JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed away by everybody in their lives except one another.

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All reviews
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh

"The Color Wheel" partially recalls the scathing audacity of "The Graduate" some 45 years ago.

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Fresh

You might not "like" Perry's movie, but it's hard to deny the forensically assured sensibility at work.

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Hard to swallow but impossible to ignore.

Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Fresh

Perry and co-writer/star Carlen Altman are Colin and J.R., the most loathsomely lovable brother-sister duo in the history of cinema.

Phil Coldiron, L.A. Weekly
Fresh

The most entertaining unpleasant film I've seen in years.

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture

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