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NUMBERS
Box Office: $1,169,941
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CONSENSUS
The movie could have benefited from a more experienced director, but a great cast and script overcome any first time jitters the director may have had.
CAST & CREW
Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini
Directed by Dylan Kidd
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SYNOPSIS
After cynical New York advertising copywriter Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) is dumped by his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Joyce (Isabella Rossellini), who is also his boss, his painful workday is further complicated by the unexpected arrival of his 16 year-old nephew, Nick (Jesse Eisenberg). After asking to spend the night at Roger's, Nick reveals that he has come to ask for help--in hopes of ditching his virginal status, Nick begs Roger for a lesson in the art of seduction. more...
MPAA RATING
R, sexual content and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 44 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 25, 2002
Video: Mar 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Artisan Entertainment
GENRE
Dramas, Coming Of Age, New York City, Sex
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POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "First-time writer-director Dylan Kidd also has a good ear for dialogue, and the characters sound like real people."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
 "Often hilarious."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"[Kidd] can write dialogue, work skillfully with actors, and he has a pretty good handle on urban loneliness of the knowing, virulent New York City variety."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"...Rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle."
-- Moira Sullivan, MOVIE MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL
"One of the smartest takes on singles culture I've seen in a long time."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"[Campbell] Scott ... delivers the kind of unflinching performance that deserves but rarely gets an Oscar nomination."
-- David Lee Simmons, GAMBIT WEEKLY (NEW ORLEANS, LA)
"It's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness, while it paints a sad picture of the singles scene."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Campbell Scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of Roger Swanson."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"An older cad instructs a younger lad in Zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"A fascinating, uneven first feature from the young writer-director Dylan Kidd."
-- Peter Rainer, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"Other than the slightly flawed (and fairly unbelievable) finale, everything else is top shelf."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"There is greatness here."
-- David Poland, HOT BUTTON
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"Ourside the theatre Roger might be intolerable company, but inside it he's well worth spending some time with."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by Joaquin Baca-Asay, the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"If you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them, and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you, then you're at the right film."
-- Kevin Smokler, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Genuine movie magic...it transports you to a place somewhere between eavesdropping voyeur and silent referee."
-- Gabriel Shanks, COZZI FAN TUTTI CELLULOID MUSINGS
"Make like the title and dodge this one."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Dark and disturbing, but also surprisingly funny."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"The date movie that Franz Kafka would have made."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"The film's highlight is definitely its screenplay, both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page, and for the memorable character creations."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"It is Scott's convincing portrayal of Roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"Kidd deals with lust and egoism the way a surgeon is interested in a tumor. He exposes ugly attitudes but maintains compassion for his mean-spirited subject."
-- Jeffrey Overstreet, LOOKING CLOSER
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FRESH 92%
Avg. Rating: 7.5/10 |
"You won't like Roger, but you will quickly recognize him. And that's a big part of why we go to the movies."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Kidd has made the rare film that's more interesting and complex than it sounds, a feature that shares with its characters a willingness to take risks and ends up, like them, in places they never expected to be."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"There's a lot of tooth in Roger Dodger. But what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script."
-- Jeff Stark, SALON.COM
"Scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern Lothario."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Nice piece of work."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"The terrific and bewilderingly underrated Campbell Scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Sly, sophisticated and surprising."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"An exciting debut from promising, and fairly disturbed, young director/screenwriter Dylan Kidd."
-- John Moore, DENVER POST
"Thanks to Scott's charismatic Roger and Eisenberg's sweet nephew, Roger Dodger is one of the most compelling variations on In the Company of Men."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
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"Doesn't really add up to much."
-- Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD
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* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Roger Dodger" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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