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06/28/07
The Mudge Boy (2004)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 20 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis: This disturbing drama, showcased at Sundance 2003, stars Emile Hirsch (THE GIRL NEXT DOOR) as Duncan Mudge. A troubled teenager, he struggles both to relate to his father (Richard Jenkins) after his mother's death, and to accept his homosexuality after developing a crush on Perry (Tom... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Richard Jenkins, Thomas Guiry, Pablo Schreiber, Zachary Knighton
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07/21/05
The seriousness is too often undercut by plot turns that are unintentionally risible...Hirsch and Jenkins are certainly the chief reasons to see it.
07/28/04
It may seem like just another movie about a boy and his father and the chicken that comes between them, but there's a heart-touching story underneath all the feathers.
07/24/04
You can hardly fault the details, the resonant silences, the sudden gushers of pent-up feeling.
07/02/04
Like a sturdy, well-observed short story, its narrative pieces put together with a plain elegance.
07/01/04
The Mudge Boy is odd and intense, very well acted, and impossible to dismiss.
06/25/04
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Because the camera so closely follows Duncan -- there's scarcely a scene he's off-frame; his awkwardness is bold and unapologetic -- he sticks close to our sympathies.
06/24/04
A little picture -- the names of the entire cast would fit on half a sheet of paper -- but it’s more heartfelt than movies with 50 times the budget.
06/04/04
Unsettling and mildly shocking at times, this is an adolescent tale of the sort one might expect from Flannery O'Connor or Paul Bowles if they were in the business of coming-of-age dramas.
05/09/04
Treads a well-traveled road and needs more than a chicken to be distinctive -- it needs a sense of transcendence, a reason to endure its sadness.
05/07/04
Though more offbeat than it needs to be, Boy takes an unflinching look at a gentle spirit trapped in a macho, violent world.
05/07/04
This story must have been much more comfortable and rewarding to read on paper than it is to watch on screen.
05/06/04
Cruelty is both the subject and the style of The Mudge Boy, an independent film with surely one of the least commercial titles in film history.
05/06/04
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