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Full Grown Men (2008)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:9

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5.3/10

Consensus: Just as its protagonist is stuck between childhood and adulthood, Full Grown Men waivers uncomfortably between comedy and drama, lacking the discipline to commit to either one.

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jun 25, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: Set in a stylized yet familiar landscape of Americana, Munro’s whimsical cautionary tale follows Alby Cutrera (Matt McGrath), a 35-year-old husband and father who longs for the days of his carefree... Set in a stylized yet familiar landscape of Americana, Munro’s whimsical cautionary tale follows Alby Cutrera (Matt McGrath), a 35-year-old husband and father who longs for the days of his carefree boyhood when his only occupation was playing with his action figures. Desperate to escape the confines of adulthood and return to his halcyon days, Alby tracks down his childhood whipping boy Elias (Judah Friedlander), who now teaches at a special needs school, and persuades him to take a road trip to Diggityland – their favorite childhood theme park. As the dynamic duo motor along Florida’s tatty Orange Blossom Highway, they encounter a cast of tragicomic creatures, including an AWOL ex-theme park employee turned commando hitchhiker (Alan Cumming), an oversexed bartending clown-in-training (Amy Sedaris), and a trailer-dwelling delusional mermaid (Deborah Harry). Calamity and mayhem ensue as Alby and Elias’ sentimental trip down memory lane becomes an unsolicited lesson in the perils of living in the past. --© Emerging Pictures [More]

Starring: Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Alan Cumming, Debbie Harry

Starring: Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Alan Cumming, Debbie Harry, Amy Sedaris, Jerry Grayson, Peter Badalamenti, Zully Montero


Studio: Emerging Pictures

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The world is uncomfortably perfect, and sparkly wide shots of stretches of landscape across which Alby walks reduce him to the lost little boy he insists on remaining, swallowed by the big bad world.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment Comment
06/25/08
Ashna Ali
Ashna Ali
New York Press

Full Grown Men is a lovely, bewitching film with a lot on its mind.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
11/07/07
Bilge Ebiri
Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine

Peter Pan syndrome is a tremendously interesting psychological condition, but Men would rather make tiresome action figure jokes and spotlight whining characters. Blah.

Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
09/17/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
DVDTalk.com

Full Grown Men might work better if the audience was given a reason to feel even a small sliver of sympathy for Alby

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
09/27/09
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

For better and for worse (at least for a story about a man struggling to behave like an adult), Full Grown Men feels and thinks with the heart and mind of a child.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/25/08
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Village Voice
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Friedlander offers a nicely subtle performance, but the other actors -- including Alan Cumming, Deborah Harry and Amy Sedaris -- appear to have turned up as a favor to the director. Don't feel obliged to follow their lead.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
06/27/08
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Lyrical and funny, Full Grown Men is a tough-minded film about the need to grow up.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
11/07/07
F.X. Feeney
F.X. Feeney
L.A. Weekly

The relationship between the stunted Alby and the mature Elias is funny and real.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
06/15/06
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

Wears a bit thin even at its brief length.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
06/26/08
Joshua Land
Joshua Land
Time Out New York

A wanly likable road-trip comedy-drama about a young man's Peter Pan-like refusal to let go of his childhood.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
11/07/07
Justin Chang
Justin Chang
Variety

Obviously, Munro is reaching for something about how people allow themselves to get mired in the past. But his characters and situations are so exaggerated and dreary that his point gets quickly lost.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
11/06/06
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Full Grown Men is nicely photographed and has impressive sets; too bad there's so little going on that it seems long even at 78 minutes.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/25/08
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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It's dramatically unsatisfying.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
06/25/08
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

As an audience member, you want to like your lead, or at least find something redeeming in him.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
11/24/07
Mark Bell
Mark Bell
Film Threat

Full Grown Men is an artistically integrated film that introduces a refreshing new talent to the independent scene, one who combines the visual palette of filmmaker Harmony Korine with an all-important sense of narrative.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
07/25/08
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Hasn't got a joke worth laughing over.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
06/27/08
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

Full Grown Men often becomes as intolerably silly as the twee Amerindies it's reacting to.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
06/26/08
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

This whimsically crafted tale that manages to be simultaneously silly, surreal and wise beyond years, is a combo memory lane, reverse time travel road movie and thirtysomething boy bonding satire, plus flaky storytelling in the extreme.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
06/21/08
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

Full Grown Men doesn't even make childhood seem like all that much fun.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
08/01/08
Rene Rodriguez
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald

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Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
05/13/09
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
 
 
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