It'd be nice if Tarantino would go back to making his own films (which are usually pretty doggoned good) rather than helping out young filmmakers to produce garbage.
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Daltry Calhoun (2005)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:2
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Watching grass grow would likely be more entertaining than this dull, slight feature about a sod salesman.
Theatrical Release:2005
Synopsis: From executive producer Quentin Tarantino comes Johnny Knoxville as Daltry Calhoun. Daltry is the go to guy, the man with a plan. A man who's life, and failing grass seed empire, takes an... [More]
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Sophie Traub, Elizabeth Banks, Juliette Lewis
Director: Katrina Bronson
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Reviews for Daltry Calhoun
Boasts Quentin Tarantino as co-executive producer but falls about as far from that particular tree as one can imagine.
10/01/05
It means well and has mild charms, but writer/director Katrina Holden Bronson can't steer the performers in the same direction, nor can she whittle down the overplotted story to its essence.
09/23/05
Newcomer Sophie Traub is a natural charmer who hovers above the confusion like an angel even as her co-stars are sucked into the muck.
09/26/05
Inconsequential with a made-for-TV look.
09/20/05
If director and screenwriter Katrina Holden Bronson intended some moments as irony, the film lacks the necessary finesse for such an elusive quality.
09/22/05
Top CriticFor all its good intentions, Daltry Calhoun is a predictable, derivative film.
02/05/06
Johnny Knoxville is moving on up from being a simple Duke of Hazzard to Tennessee's King of Sod. Too bad the royal promotion didn't come with a quality upgrade as well.
09/23/05
Unusual and in places refreshing, Daltry Calhoun is a good natured independent comedy drama independent film fans will endorse.
10/22/05
It seems everyone involved meant well, but this one moves like an empty boat in a pond.
10/06/05
There's no reason to see this film, not even on cable. None!
10/01/05
Aims for whimsy and poignancy and mostly comes up empty.
09/23/05
Utterly lifeless and dull and quite simply hard to sit through.
09/23/05
This is the kind of smug, listless product that the world, indie or otherwise, would be better off without.
09/22/05
Bronson attempts to wring some unearned emotional redemption from her dimwitted characters, but the faux-Southern sincerity and June's incessant voice-over prove too annoying.
09/22/05
A weird, unpleasant little movie.
11/04/05
Top CriticKnoxville tries hard and exudes a certain likability, but can't really handle big dramatic moments at this point in his career.
11/04/05
Top CriticAlthough the film starts off somewhat amusingly, the first-time feature director Katrina Holden Bronson seems to have spent more energy assembling the overbearing soundtrack than expanding on her characters' fractured relationships.
11/03/05
Southern whimsy, when handled delicately, can produce a precious jewel a la Junebug. In less skillful hands, it can be merely precious.
11/04/05
Top CriticThe old 'Bachelor Father' formula is resurrected with a killer dose of whimsy in this pointedly quirky, almost unbearably dilatory feature.
09/28/05
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