Skirts stalker cliches and grown-up-kid-in-a-man's-body caricatures.
Chuck & Buck (2000)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:26
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Poignant, unsettling.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Miguel Arteta's (STAR MAPS) sophomore directorial effort is the disturbing, heartbreaking, and comic tale of Buck O'Brien, a 27-year-old with a serious case of arrested development. Buck, played by... Miguel Arteta's (STAR MAPS) sophomore directorial effort is the disturbing, heartbreaking, and comic tale of Buck O'Brien, a 27-year-old with a serious case of arrested development. Buck, played by Mike White, who also wrote the screenplay, is a man with the social skills of an 11-year-old, still living in his childhood past surrounded by toys, his favorite candy (Blow Pops), and photos of his one and only friend, Chuck. After his mother's death, Buck writes to Chuck, whom he hasn't seen since they were boys. Chuck, played by director Chris Weitz (AMERICAN PIE), comes to the funeral with his fiancée, Carlyn (Beth Colt), only to discover that Buck has developed an eccentric, intense fixation on him. When Chuck, now called Charlie, makes an offhand invitation for Buck to visit them in L.A., Buck packs up his toys and moves there. He begins stalking the increasingly wary and angry Charlie, a handsome, successful record producer who feels his perfect life threatened by Buck's hints about their past. A funny, discomfiting tale of sexual obsession with a twist, CHUCK & BUCK continually engages and surprises viewers with Buck's frantic, yet oddly sympathetic, quest for love. [More]
Starring: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt
Starring: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz
Director: Miguel Arteta
Director: Miguel Arteta
Screenwriter: Mike White
Producer: Matthew Greenfield
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Reviews for Chuck & Buck
Do you like the clammy as opposed to the scary? Do you like dread rather than drama, anguish and emotional coagulation rather than screamfests?
That Chuck & Buck holds attention despite -- or partly due to -- its murky, troubling central conceit can be credited to execution that's stealthy and low-key throughout.
Possibly the most daring and honest drama about sexuality I've ever seen.
Chuck & Buck is a beacon of intelligent oddity in another summer of sameness.
Unquestionably one of the most affecting, unusual and daring movies of this year.
Manages to be not only consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary.
The movie is so assured, so daring and successful on its own terms, that it can make ordinary cinematic beauty seem skin-deep.
Arteta mines a lot of subtle laughs out of [Beverly and Buck's] unlikely pairing.
What makes Chuck & Buck a brave movie is that it doesn't attempt to sugarcoat or elevate childish qualities the way movies such as Disney's The Kid and Forrest Gump do.
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March 22, 2006:
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