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The Young Unknowns (2003)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:4
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: A movie about uninteresting people doing uninteresting things.
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... [More]
Starring: Devon Gummersall, Eion Bailey, Leslie Bibb, Arly Jover
Director: Catherine Jelski
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Reviews for The Young Unknowns
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This bleak little drama started as a play, and I'd bet that even onstage it felt contrived. Full Review |
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Destined for well-deserved obscurity. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Feels like a pity-party for a few spoiled jerks who, all things considered, don't really merit 90 minutes of my undivided attention. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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[an] eloquent, damning case against American culture and family Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Jelski's casting is daring, in its way, and I wish more American filmmakers would follow her example. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The writing and the lead performance of Devon Gummersall in Catherine Jelski's The Young Unknowns makes this spoiled rich kid movie almost tolerable. Full Review |
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C- |
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. Full Review |
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D |
They're not just Young Unknowns, they're also unintelligent, uninspired and unfailingly irritating, too. Full Review |
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1/4 |
There is nothing to redeem this movie, and no real reason to see it. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
It is a harrowing experience, anchored by the solid portrayal by young Devon Gummersall. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Yet another sordid tale of single white Hollywood kids who get drugged, drunk and disorderly by their swimming pools. Full Review |
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The film is tough going for all the wrong reasons. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Repetitive and stagy. Full Review |
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