Pumpkin (2002)
39 %
Reviews Counted: 70 Fresh: 27 Rotten:43 Average Rating: 5/10
Consensus:
The messy Pumpkin wastes its premise by not making the satire sharp enough.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 28, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $107,838
Synopsis: Christina Ricci stars as Carolyn McDuffy, a picture-perfect blonde sorority princess (reminiscent of Reese Witherspoon's perky LEGALLY BLONDE co-ed, Elle Woods) enjoying her senior year at Southern California State University. Carolyn has been voted "Most Enthusiastic" by her Alpha... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Hank Harris, Christina Ricci, Brenda Blethyn, Marisa Coughlan, Dominique Swain
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Reviews
Rambling and diffuse, this debut film vacillates between the Farrelly brotthers' gross-out comedy and a softer, kinder message film, an incoherent blend that proves frustrating and not particularly enjoyable either.
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10/09/06
Top Critic
Like a grinning Jack O' Lantern, its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy, having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded.
03/17/03
Pumpkin is a movie that resists categorization, that manages wit, intelligence, audacity and pointed social commentary while still entertaining us with a terrifically bizarre combination of soapy, ultra-stylized satire and blackly comic fairytale.
01/19/03
Successfully blended satire, high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie.
12/08/02
Although there are many juicy supporting performances, Christina Ricci owns this movie. What a wonderful talent, and what a maddening, but enjoyable film.
12/03/02
One of the most uneven motion pictures that I've had the displeasure of sitting through over the past few years.
11/08/02
Christina Ricci comedy about sympathy, hypocrisy and love is a misfire.
11/07/02
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11/06/02
Top Critic
By halfway through this picture I was beginning to hate it, and, of course, feeling guilty for it.... Then, miracle of miracles, the movie does a flip-flop.
11/05/02
Though Harris is affecting at times, he cannot overcome the sense that Pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities.
11/04/02
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10/21/02
A savage John Waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over.
09/20/02
This low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the Farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time.
09/20/02
Ricci's Carolyn is entrenched so in her small worldview, so surrounded by sameness, that as she opens her heart to Pumpkin it's entirely believable.
08/26/02
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