It seems everyone involved meant well, but this one moves like an empty boat in a pond.
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10/06/05
Daltry Calhoun (2005)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:2
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Watching grass grow would likely be more entertaining than this dull, slight feature about a sod salesman.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: From executive producer Quentin Tarantino comes Johnny Knoxville as Daltry Calhoun. Daltry is the go to guy, the man with a plan. A man who's life, and failing grass seed empire, takes an... [More]
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Sophie Traub, Elizabeth Banks, Juliette Lewis
Director: Katrina Bronson
Reviews for Daltry Calhoun
Newcomer Sophie Traub is a natural charmer who hovers above the confusion like an angel even as her co-stars are sucked into the muck.
09/26/05
A weird, unpleasant little movie.
11/04/05
It'd be nice if Tarantino would go back to making his own films (which are usually pretty doggoned good) rather than helping out young filmmakers to produce garbage.
02/19/06
Bronson attempts to wring some unearned emotional redemption from her dimwitted characters, but the faux-Southern sincerity and June's incessant voice-over prove too annoying.
09/22/05
Top CriticAt times this movie is as slow as watching grass grow... it’s a film with some nice moments that’s a tad on the hokey side, but always tries to be super-duper earnest.
09/23/05
It's a fantasy of a Southern town without minorities or economic difficulties where all the white folks support each other and speak with clear, but variable drawls. Oye.
09/26/05
The movie has its flaws, but they are few and forgivable.
08/16/07
Utterly lifeless and dull and quite simply hard to sit through.
09/23/05
Unusual and in places refreshing, Daltry Calhoun is a good natured independent comedy drama independent film fans will endorse.
10/22/05
Inconsequential with a made-for-TV look.
09/20/05
It means well and has mild charms, but writer/director Katrina Holden Bronson can't steer the performers in the same direction, nor can she whittle down the overplotted story to its essence.
09/23/05
Although the film starts off somewhat amusingly, the first-time feature director Katrina Holden Bronson seems to have spent more energy assembling the overbearing soundtrack than expanding on her characters' fractured relationships.
11/03/05
Top CriticMind-numbingly awful.
09/23/05
A string of scenes in search of a movie.
10/05/05
Top CriticAims for whimsy and poignancy and mostly comes up empty.
09/23/05
Top CriticKnoxville tries hard and exudes a certain likability, but can't really handle big dramatic moments at this point in his career.
11/04/05
There's no reason to see this film, not even on cable. None!
10/01/05
Contains a couple of lovely scenes that are all but smothered by a shambling mess of self-conscious eccentricity.
11/04/05
This is the kind of smug, listless product that the world, indie or otherwise, would be better off without.
09/22/05
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