Gummo
A town in Ohio is damaged by a tornado, and two teenagers Tummler and Solomon are discovering its remains. They get to know that this town consists of very troubled and perverted people who have a keen interest in black metal, dirt bikes, sex, sniffing glue and killing cats.
18 November 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
1973, USA
28 March 1968, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3 May 1977, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
4 January 1973, Bolinas, California, USA
20 August 1961, New York City, New York, USA
April 28, 2008
Harsh, funny, repellent and occasionally quite moving.
April 28, 2008
C'mon, Harmony. Mano a boyo. What are you really trying to prove here?
January 01, 2000
No conceivable competition [this year] will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Korine's debut feature.
April 28, 2008
It's bleak, brutal and redeemed only by Reynolds's outstanding performance.
February 07, 2010
A glue-sniffer's reverie and an aestheticized episode of Beavis & Butthead, explicitly and bracingly set up as an act of cinematic vandalism
April 28, 2008
Enfant terrible Harmony Korine makes a bizarre, idiosyncratic directing debut with his uncompromising look at youth alientaion in Middle-America, whose downbeat tone and off-putting imagery should appeal to small minority of viewers.
February 09, 2006
Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn't get any sharper than this.
August 20, 2009
Gummo aims to be provocatively anti-everything: anti-Christian, anti-feline, non-narrative, unpolished, visually dyslexic, and imaginatively off-putting.
December 06, 2005
Korine is the Jerry Springer of this world. He doesn't judge his subjects, he can still identify with them.
January 01, 2000
Korine's objective is so narrow and mean, and his viewpoint so colored by smug, adolescent condescension, that Gummo comes off like a mean-spirited prank.
February 14, 2008
Directors have been hailed as visionaries for less.
April 12, 2002
In real life, this town was devastated by a tornado 20 years ago. According to Korine's version of things, it never recovered.
