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Box Office: $107,838
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CONSENSUS
The messy Pumpkin wastes its premise by not making the satire sharp enough.
CAST & CREW
Hank Harris, Christina Ricci, Brenda Blethyn
Directed by Adam Larson Broder, Tony Abrams
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SYNOPSIS
Christina Ricci stars as Carolyn McDuffy, a picture-perfect blonde sorority princess (reminiscent of Reese Witherspoon's perky LEGALLY BLONDE co-ed, Elle Woods) enjoying her senior year at Southern California State University. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language and a scene of sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 56 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 28, 2002
Video: Nov 5, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Dramas, Black Comedy, Romance
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Pumpkin Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
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 "While the glass slipper doesn't quite fit, Pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
 "Though Harris is affecting at times, he cannot overcome the sense that Pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Pumpkin wants to have it both ways."
-- Bill White, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"It's [Ricci's] best work yet, this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"Smug, artificial, ill-constructed and fatally overlong...it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite, degenerating into a pious, preachy soap opera."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"In trying to be daring and original, it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh."
-- Lisa Stokes, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"A dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality, probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"One of the funniest motion pictures of the year, but...also one of the most curiously depressing."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"It's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go, and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"Broder's screenplay is shallow, offensive and redundant, with pitifully few real laughs."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"A savage John Waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"An Afterschool Special without the courage of its convictions."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Some of their jokes work, but most fail miserably and in the end, Pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funny."
-- David Levine, FILMCRITIC.COM
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"This low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the Farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"An impressive hybrid."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"All the filmmakers are asking of us, is to believe in something that is improbable."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Christina Ricci comedy about sympathy, hypocrisy and love is a misfire."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"By halfway through this picture I was beginning to hate it, and, of course, feeling guilty for it.... Then, miracle of miracles, the movie does a flip-flop."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
"...a pretentious mess..."
-- David Nusair, REEL FILM REVIEWS
"Pumpkin takes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of political correctness, but it does so with such an uneven tone that you never know when humor ends and tragedy begins."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
"Like a grinning Jack O' Lantern, its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy, having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded."
-- Brian Mckay, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Successfully blended satire, high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie."
-- Don R. Lewis, FILM THREAT
"The film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message, if indeed there is one."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
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ROTTEN 48%
Avg. Rating: 6.4/10 |
"[T]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously, and the Stepford Wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"An opportunity missed."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life, but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer Adam Larson Broder and his co-director, Tony R. Abrams, in their feature debut."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Weird. Rewarding."
-- Scott Steinberg, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"The filmmakers try to balance pointed, often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness, with results that are sometimes bracing, sometimes baffling and quite often, and in unexpected ways, touching."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless Todd Solondzian satire and callow student film."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"By presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world, Pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so."
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
"I wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"If you believe any of this, I can make you a real deal on leftover Enron stock that will double in value a week from Friday."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"[A] rather thinly-conceived movie."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
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"It's a mystery how the movie could be released in this condition."
-- David Keyes, DAVID KEYES' CINEMA 2000
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