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Harmony and Me (2009)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Stubbornly embracing his own unhappiness on the heels of a recent breakup, loquacious young songwriter Harmony's self-imposed exile into misery serves as a source of irritation to his headstrong mother, and a curious source of amusement to his eccentric friends. Justin Rice, Kevin Corrigan, and Pat Healy star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Unrated, 1 hr. 15 min.

Comedy

Bob Byington

MoMA

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (1)

Represents much of what is wonderful and fresh about the recent wave of ultra-low-budget American independent filmmaking.

March 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Austin, Texas, has never looked more unlovely, and its residents more clueless, than in Harmony and Me, a funny, wry mumblecore comedy by Bob Byington.

November 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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In a flat, dry affect, the movie sings the breakup blues.

November 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
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Despite the film's sketchy aesthetic and barely animate lead, its tone is carefully contrived: I'll wager no one in your circle is as dryly funny or spontaneously surreal as Harmony's nonsupport group.

September 18, 2009 Comment
New York Times
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Slight, indifferently shot, and entirely lacking in ballast, Harmony and Me's sole justification for being is that it's consistently very funny.

September 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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As awkward as its title character.

July 2, 2009 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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This bagatelle from Bob Byington is Greenberg lite, or maybe an edgier The Office, or softcore mumblecore.

April 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Boston Phoenix

A great new director with a great and laid back saga that will be too laid back for some but well worth the watching.

October 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | Comment
Monsters and Critics

Harmony is a finely tuned comedy, complete with precisely scripted jokes and comic set pieces that swerve toward the playfully perverse.

September 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

Bob Byington's "Harmony and Me" is an indie gem that isn't at all what it appears to be at first glance.

July 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

It may be true that every generation deserves its droll slacker comedy. But every five years?

March 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | Comment
Film-Forward.com

A mumblecore-ish debut feature from writer-director Bob Byington that's far less interested in oblique conversational navel-gazing than in dry humor.

March 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Harmony and Me

Filled with deadpan cyniscim, this is one of the funniest films from recent times. It might be about heartbreak (as Harmony states throughout the film - "she broke my heart. but she's still at it. she's breaking my heart.") but beneath the surface, the film shows hilarious interactions between the forlorn main

November 6, 2011

This movie is funny.

December 26, 2010

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