Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
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Two bored suburban kids looking for something to do get trapped in the wrong kind of excitement in this independent drama. Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) is a boy in his early teens, depressed and out of sorts, who half-heartedly attempts suicide without having the wherewithal to go the whole nine yards. When his girlfriend Rocky (Mischa Barton) shows up on her way to school, Stevie has just found his mother's gun while poking around the house. As they head off for class, Stevie brings the pistol
Jan 1, 1999 Wide
Jul 25, 2000
Allied Entertainment
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (1)
The crisp images and Bill Foster's unnerving ambient sound of hovering copters enormously aid this low-budget powder keg.
Ash ... is a genuine provocateur-filmmaker.
Raw but effective reworking of Dog Day Afternoon.
Pups looks ragged and slammed-together, but that's part of its appeal; the film has a wildness that more care would have killed.
Hyperkinetic, perceptive though derivative.
If Stevie didn't seem like such a real and basically ordinary teen, the film wouldn't be so compelling.
An eye-opening examination of contemporary youth violence and American gun culture.
'Pups' is about very emotive subjects (gun crime and gun ownership in the US, the loss of innocence and nihilism of younger generations) that manages raise them without ever turning to didacticism.It is the sort of film Michael Moore wishes he had the intelligence to produce. It is political without wearing a badge on
July 22, 2009Super Reviewer
Cool watching kids rob a bank, but I didn't feel there was a point to it.
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