Dummy (2003)
71 %
Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 22 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Rated: R
Runtime: 90 mins
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 12, 2003 Limited
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
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Reviews
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 01:13 PM
Pritikin's movie succeeds...thanks to its spirited, oddball humor and winning performances
09/30/04 08:53 PM
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 03:33 PM
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10/01/03 05:17 PM
The characters are all strangely endearing, and the real pleasure of the movie is just watching them interact.
09/26/03 09:12 PM
Definitely lives down to its name -- you can see the lips moving on this wooden thing.
09/26/03 09:11 PM
Top Critic Surprisingly endearing in moments thanks to finely tuned comic performances, especially from Brody.
09/15/03 05:21 PM
[T]he best ventriloquist -stalker -family-drama -romantic -comedy I've seen in, well maybe forever.
09/15/03 04:42 PM
Top Critic 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 08:16 AM
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 05:24 PM
It's repetitive and obvious but somehow endearing, like a truly ugly dog with sweet eyes.
09/12/03 03:17 PM
Pritikin's shrewd comedy-drama catches a fine flock of family emotions on the wing, and not the over-exposed ones.
09/12/03 03:14 PM
Top Critic What could have been a biting dark comedy is, instead, uninspired and generic.
09/12/03 03:12 PM
Top Critic Brody is a real talent, and Illeana Douglas is a riot as his older sister.
09/12/03 03:10 PM
Top Critic The result is the kind of oddball independent film that's almost a parody of the genre.
09/11/03 11:05 PM
A mildly engaging addition to that curious sub-genre of American independent filmmaking, the whimsical comedy of Long Island alienation.
09/11/03 06:01 PM
Top Critic Top Critic Adrien Brody rescues Greg Pritikin's self-consciously eccentric comedy.
09/11/03 03:00 PM
Top Critic Brody shot this film pre-Pianist and performed all the puppetry and ventriloquism himself, and it's pretty impressive watching the Oscar-winning actor externalize his expressions on the dummy's face.
09/11/03 02:51 PM
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