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Kabluey (2008)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:31
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: An effecting treatise on modern alienation, Scott Prendergast's story of a hapless loser who finds recognition by donning a featureless suit is full of whimsy and sorrow.
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Inept Salman (Scott Prendergast) comes to help his sister-in-law (Lisa Kudrow) tend to her homicidal toddlers while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. Salman must take a humiliating job as a... [More]
Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Scott Prendergast, Teri Garr, Christine Taylor
Director: Scott Prendergast
Reviews for Kabluey
Short on substance, despite a watchable supporting cast and an amiable overall tenor.
10/18/08
Top Critican anthem for hard times
09/29/08
Kabluey nearly implodes in the opening moments but swiftly finds its footing.
09/16/08
An impressive debut both on screen and off.
08/22/08
Prendergast doesn't chase alternative statements, he wants to make people laugh, and Kabluey is one of the more inventive, invigorating productions to come out of the industry's lonely right field.
08/12/08
This heartfelt film, though a bit uneven, is touching most of the time, funny some of the time, but always original and appealing.
08/01/08
While it borrows from obvious sources, Kabluey eventually comes into its own as a wacky commentary on the state of America in the fifth year of the Iraq war.
08/01/08
Quirky and undisturbed, unaffected and unaffecting.
07/25/08
Dramedy with mature themes is light on substance.
07/14/08
Subtle, strange and off-kilter without becoming self-consciously quirky.
07/14/08
A dark piece of whimsy that enchants and befuddles in equal measure.
07/11/08
Top CriticIn costume and character, Prendergast is a little funny and more than a little sad. So is the film.
07/10/08
Kabluey, which has no discernible political agenda, is wildly uneven and often seems like a short stretched to feature length. But it's also kind of oddly endearing.
07/10/08
If it comes to your city, be sure to check out one of the lost gems of the year.
07/10/08
The funniest movie I've seen this year.
07/10/08
The Austin-shot movie catches the nation's mood of economic anxiety and workplace exploitation more pungently than anything else in theaters.
07/10/08
An offbeat a comedy of discomfort.
07/10/08
The filmmakers here not only disguise what they would like to say about the long-waged war, they obscure the message, leaving one with not much more than a few brief glimpses of the war’s effects amidst a number of quirky distractions.
07/07/08
In the recent epidemic of comedies about 30-something men in the throes of severe arrested development, he is one of the most pitifully incompetent losers.
07/07/08
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Another tired family values tale about women who make bad parents without men around. Not to mention that wives of deployed military men don't need to struggle to make ends meet or for health insurance, the government does that. Kaphooey. 
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