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06/26/08
Dummy (2003)
71 %
Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 22 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis: Family, friendship and romance find a voice in Dummy, the smartly offbeat and charming debut comedy from writer and director Greg Pritikin. Steven Schoichet (Adrien Brody, Academy Award® winner for The Pianist) is browbeaten at every turn, by his family, his dead-end job, the faceless... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, Jessica Walter
Director: Gregory Pritikin
Screenwriter: Gregory Pritikin
Producer: Bob Fagan, Richard Temtchine
Composer: Paul Wallfisch
Screenwriter: Gregory Pritikin
Producer: Bob Fagan, Richard Temtchine
Composer: Paul Wallfisch
Reviews
Top Critic
Pritikin may be asking his audience to pay attention and embrace small successes, but with Dummy, he has pulled off a great one.
12/09/04
Pritikin's movie succeeds...thanks to its spirited, oddball humor and winning performances
09/30/04
Like its mini-mouthpiece, as pleasantly entertaining as Dummy often is, this ultimately hollow film sounds a few too many wooden notes and creaky jokes.
01/29/04
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10/01/03
The characters are all strangely endearing, and the real pleasure of the movie is just watching them interact.
09/26/03
Definitely lives down to its name -- you can see the lips moving on this wooden thing.
09/26/03
Surprisingly endearing in moments thanks to finely tuned comic performances, especially from Brody.
09/15/03
[T]he best ventriloquist -stalker -family-drama -romantic -comedy I've seen in, well maybe forever.
09/15/03
Dummy might have been a better movie if Greg Pritikin had done a few more rewrites on his script, and if he'd had more than a few weeks in which to shoot it.
09/13/03
It's a sweetly sad and sadly funny tale, conceived with quirky sensitivity, but, though its actors are adept, it only just hangs together, like a sitcom still in rehearsal stages.
09/12/03
It's repetitive and obvious but somehow endearing, like a truly ugly dog with sweet eyes.
09/12/03
Pritikin's shrewd comedy-drama catches a fine flock of family emotions on the wing, and not the over-exposed ones.
09/12/03
What could have been a biting dark comedy is, instead, uninspired and generic.
09/12/03
Brody is a real talent, and Illeana Douglas is a riot as his older sister.
09/12/03
The result is the kind of oddball independent film that's almost a parody of the genre.
09/11/03
Top Critic
A mildly engaging addition to that curious sub-genre of American independent filmmaking, the whimsical comedy of Long Island alienation.
09/11/03
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Adrien Brody rescues Greg Pritikin's self-consciously eccentric comedy.
09/11/03
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