Butter2012
Butter (2012)
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Critic Consensus: Despite its talented cast and a few funny moments, Butter's satirical aims are largely undone by a lack of subtlety and air of smugness.
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Cast
as Laura
as Bob Pickler
as Brooke
as Kaitlen
as Boyd Bolton
as Jill
as Destiny
as Ethan
as Carol-Ann
as Nancy
as Orval Flanagan
as Announcer
as Helen Flanagan
as Butter Fan
as Butter Fan's Wife
as Mrs. Moore
as June Carmichael
as Mrs. Gunderson
as Danielle Mattingly
as Transitional Home Assistant
as Hayden
as Miss Schram
as Martina Caswell
as Ned Eaton
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Critic Reviews for Butter
All Critics (64) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (43) | DVD (1)
A wicked Midwest satire with razor blades stashed beneath its bright candy-apple surface.
Hardly the high-priced spread, this condescending comedy about Middle America will score with some audiences and put off others.
Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date.
The movie's entire superior attitude is kind of annoying.
We're still just scratching the surface of witty, provocative humor as long as envelope-pushing directors such as Jim Field Smith continue to find work.
At times, the Midwestern satire "Butter" is almost funny, and in its honor I almost laughed.
Audience Reviews for Butter
Who knew butter could be so interesting. Lol. This kind of reminded me of "Election". Jennifer Garner's overachieving character definitely had a Tracey Flick vibe to her. Bitching, backstabbing, a scheming hooker, what's not to like in this very black little comedy drama.
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Cute, and witty. Really well done. Excellent cast. Perfect Sunday afternoon movie....
Super Reviewer
There's going to be a meltdown. Good decent movie! Butter is a delightful little comedy that has most of its best jokes in the trailer but still manages to make you smile throughout. I'll admit, when I watched this I didn't have particularly high hopes. The film's strength is its short run-time. At a little over 80 minutes, the film opens up quick, makes you chuckle and sometimes laugh, and wraps up before you worry about its problems. It is necessary for me to address these problems but I honestly didn't care much for them. I had a lot of fun watching it. In Iowa, laid-back Bob has won the state fair's butter-carving contest 15 years running; his tightly-wound and hard-charging wife Laura sees Bob becoming governor, so when the contest organizers ask him to step aside so others can win, she's incensed; when Bob won't protest, she decides to enter herself. In the county contest, she's up against Destiny, an African-American foster child, and Brooke, a prostitute Bob hasn't paid. When things don't go Laura's way, she enlists the help of Boyd, an old boyfriend. Laura's step-daughter and Destiny's foster parents are in the mix as things heat up at the state fair. What are Destiny and Laura's destiny?
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Butter Quotes
| Ethan: | You could die of a tragic butter overdose. There could be a rabid grizzly bear hiding inside this very moose lodge waiting to tear your face off. |
| Destiny: | There could be a python inside. |
| Ethan: | What if this place is full of monkeys with a deadly virus? |
| Destiny: | It could be the ghost of Hitler. |
| Ethan: | What if there's no gravity in there and you float up and bang your head on the ceiling? And then all the sudden gravity kicks in and you bang your head on the floor. |
| Destiny: | My new foster parents and everyone at my new school were so nice, that I couldn't help but think, are these crackers for real? |
| Brooke: | Hey, I know you're only like 10 and shit, but listen up. You beat that skanky ass bitch. You beat her hard. I've done all I can do. It's up to you know. |
| Ethan Emmet: | It's butter. You put it on toast! |