Pritikin may be asking his audience to pay attention and embrace small successes, but with Dummy, he has pulled off a great one.
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12/09/04
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Dummy (2003)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:23
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.2/10
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... [More]
Starring: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga
Director: Gregory Pritikin
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07/02/03
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
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04/29/09
Trazendo ótimas atuações de Farmiga, Jovovich (no melhor desempenho de sua carreira) e especialmente de Adrien Brody, o filme diverte e encanta, sendo sempre surpreendente.
08/23/03
Surprisingly endearing in moments thanks to finely tuned comic performances, especially from Brody.
09/15/03
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03/13/06
'Some people can say a lot without moving their lips' is the perfect tagline for this delightful comedy.
08/26/03
The result is the kind of oddball independent film that's almost a parody of the genre.
09/11/03
[T]he best ventriloquist -stalker -family-drama -romantic -comedy I've seen in, well maybe forever.
09/15/03
Top CriticSo endearing and comedically 'real' are these characters that you'll want to stop the film, climb onscreen and give everyone a big hug.
03/19/03
Yes, I'm sounding like Joel Siegel here, but I simply loved this film. It's quite honestly a great time from end to end. I honestly can't think of a negative in the entire thing, and my therapist will tell you I'm a pretty negative guy.
03/25/03
Pritikin ... serves up the sort of shrill 'satire' of middle-class Jewish vulgarity in which the mere mention of words like 'brisket' and 'klezmer' is automatically presumed to be hilarious.
09/10/03
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10/01/03
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
An ultimate crowd-pleaser.
03/21/03
naïve sincerity gives Dummy a strong tenderness, one completely anchored by Brody's daring and dedicated performance.
05/03/03
Has many of the qualities comedy movie fans have been missing in cinema today: charm, wit, romance and winning performances across the board.
09/06/03
Definitely lives down to its name -- you can see the lips moving on this wooden thing.
09/26/03
It's no surprise that Brody, Douglas, Walter and Leibman make for one highly entertaining, if messed up, family unit, but the big revelation here is Jovovich.
03/21/03
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