The Bronze
A foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist (Melissa Rauch) with local celebrity status takes action when a promising young gymnast (Haley Lu Richardson) threatens her status to steal her spotlight.
20 November 1976, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
20 September 1956, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
7 March 1995, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
20 November 1990, USA
16 May 1955, Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Hrodna, Belarus]
11 August 1991, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 August 1956, Missoula, Montana, USA
July 11, 2016
Relentlessly mean-spirited, but also very, very funny.
March 18, 2016
There are some decent laughs here (especially for a well choreographed sex scene) and even an amusing soundtrack, but there's just not enough story to go around.
March 18, 2016
The Bronze often feels like an extended skit, but Hope is so refreshingly unladylike and the movie is so refreshingly cynical about gymnastics that the results are surprisingly amusing.
June 28, 2016
[The Bronze has] a tendency not to create a universe and drama, but to impose events, however unlikely and incongruous they may be, to fulfill a pre-determined arc.
December 31, 2016
Dark comedy doesn't play with everyone, and the overall tone hops around too much. But did I have a blast watching it? Yup.
March 19, 2016
A crude yet cuddly comedy written by a star of "The Big Bang Theory."
March 18, 2016
The plot is beyond basic and the dialogue so crude it almost feels like an R-rated cartoon. Still, The Bronze has a loony Napoleon Dynamite-meets-Talladega Nights-on-the-balance-beam charm.
October 25, 2016
Rauch's character could easily be too cutesy, too cruel, or just too annoying if played by another actress. But audiences will love her particular brand of arrested development.
April 07, 2016
If there are a few sweet moments between Rauch and Middleditch here, they're all but erased by an ineffectual story... and an admittedly impressive void of genuine laughs.
March 18, 2016
I wouldn't want to live next to Hope, but it is fascinating to watch her. And every so often it's refreshing to have a movie that dares to say - you know, no matter what all the screenwriting gurus tell you, some characters never change.
April 19, 2016
Falling short in every way, The Bronze places last in the game of film comedy.
March 18, 2016
This ostensibly edgy comedy didn't wring a single laugh out of me until maybe fifteen minutes before the finale.
