Dylan Kidd creates, with the capable help of his cast and crew, a terrific debut with the smart, funny and upbeat “Roger Dodger.”
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10/31/02
Roger Dodger (2002)
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Reviews Counted:122
Fresh:107
Rotten:15
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: The movie could have benefited from a more experienced director, but a great cast and script overcome any first time jitters the director may have had.
Theatrical Release:Oct 25, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $1,169,941
Synopsis: After cynical New York advertising copywriter Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) is dumped by his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Joyce (Isabella Rossellini), who is also his boss, his painful workday... [More]
Starring: Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Jennifer Beals
Director: Dylan Kidd
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Reviews for Roger Dodger
If you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them, and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you, then you're at the right film.
10/29/02
[Director Dylan] Kidd might not be Shakespeare (though he's got a remarkably tuned ear for dialogue), but his sense of structure and willingness to push the flawed, comic-tragic protagonist to the fore merits the grand comparison.
10/29/02
Good cutting dialogue that one-ups Neil La Bute's for downright cynicism.
10/27/02
Takes delight in skewering [Roger's] carefully-formed suppositions while never entirely disproving his theories.
10/27/02
One of the smartest takes on singles culture I've seen in a long time.
10/26/02
Wicked and funny, full of the kind of surprises too few movies can pull off but which first-timer Dylan Kidd handles with a sureness that is bracing.
10/26/02
There's a lot of tooth in Roger Dodger. But what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script.
10/25/02
A wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs.
10/25/02
Top CriticThanks to Scott's charismatic Roger and Eisenberg's sweet nephew, Roger Dodger is one of the most compelling variations on In the Company of Men.
10/25/02
Top CriticShot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by Joaquin Baca-Asay, the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity.
10/25/02
Roger Dodger is a little too programmed in its despair, but it coasts along on the jagged music of the modern lothario's song.
10/25/02
Top CriticLife's just full of surprises. Who'd expect a movie about a rogue and his horny teenage nephew to be so good?
10/25/02
Though Roger is hateful, he is consistently mesmeric. Scott's layered performance eventually allows glimpses through Roger's smoke and mirrors without being obvious.
10/25/02
Offers some fresh twists on the well-worn theme of sexual politics and shows how far some men still have to go to achieve emotional intelligence.
10/25/02
Campbell Scott's fiendishly mercurial performance as razor-tongued womanizer Roger is a revelation but it's only one of this nimble film's pleasures.
10/24/02
For Kidd, Roger Dodger marks an arresting and auspicious debut.
10/24/02
An extremely promising first feature.
10/24/02
Top CriticKidd has made the rare film that's more interesting and complex than it sounds, a feature that shares with its characters a willingness to take risks and ends up, like them, in places they never expected to be.
10/24/02
Top CriticScott's riveting performance makes good use of the well-crafted dialogue, drawing you irresistibly into Roger's cynical, misogynistic world.
10/24/02
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