The Young Unknowns (2003)
15 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 4 Rotten:22 Average Rating: 4/10
Consensus:
A movie about uninteresting people doing uninteresting things.
Rated: R
Runtime: 87 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 11, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: At his father's expensive home in the Los Angeles hills, aspiring filmmaker Charlie (Devon Gummersall) and his browbeaten girlfriend, Paloma (Arly Jover) bicker and drink until Charlie's best friend Joe (Eion Bailey) arrives, who is another privileged, indulgent Hollywood type. Joe... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Devon Gummersall, Eion Bailey, Leslie Bibb, Arly Jover, S.A. Templeman
Director: Catherine Jelski
Screenwriter: Catherine Jelski
Producer: Kimberly Shane O'Hara, Eric M. Klein, Catherine Jelski
Screenwriter: Catherine Jelski
Producer: Kimberly Shane O'Hara, Eric M. Klein, Catherine Jelski
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06/03/08
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Feels like a pity-party for a few spoiled jerks who, all things considered, don't really merit 90 minutes of my undivided attention.
08/14/05
Within this haze of drug abuse, cockiness and hollowness, we're supposed to feel for our young, spoiled protagonist. Sadly, what we mostly feel is the pain of our eyes constantly rolling in our heads.
05/16/03
First-time director Catherine Jelski dredges up every cliche about druggy, obnoxious dreamers on the fringes of Hollywood and assumes that said cliches have the power to shock and surprise.
04/25/03
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You're not going to feel enlightened by The Young Unknowns and, frankly, you'll probably benefit by keeping them unknown from your film-going pocketbook.
04/25/03
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04/23/03
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The film wants to be a revealing character study of aimless Hollywood wannabes, but the story is just not compelling enough to make the viewer care.
04/22/03
The writing and the lead performance of Devon Gummersall in Catherine Jelski's The Young Unknowns makes this spoiled rich kid movie almost tolerable.
04/22/03
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A film of probative quietude with fiercely invested in performances; in small ways perceptive and intelligent but overall too lackadaisical in its intellectual application to leave upon viewers more than a faint, passing memory.
04/21/03
They're not just Young Unknowns, they're also unintelligent, uninspired and unfailingly irritating, too.
04/18/03
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It is a harrowing experience, anchored by the solid portrayal by young Devon Gummersall.
04/17/03
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Yet another sordid tale of single white Hollywood kids who get drugged, drunk and disorderly by their swimming pools.
04/17/03
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A curious exercise in the vein of David Rabe's Hurlyburly that needed greater dramatic heft than is exhibited by the industry lightweights it depicts.
04/15/03
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