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Movie Info

Inspired by his young nephew and his best friend (Camilla Belle), a Los Angeles playboy (Skylar Astin) decides to give up his partying ways and find true love.

Rating:

R (Language|Sexual Content|Nudity)
Genre:

romance
Original Language:

English
Director:

Herschel Faber
Producer:

Herschel Faber, Cole Payne, Joe Fogel
Writer:

Herschel Faber
Release Date (Theaters):

Feb 7, 2014 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 28, 2016
Runtime:

1h 27m
Production Co:

Traverse Media

Cast & Crew

Skylar Astin
Dean

Camilla Belle
Tess

Chad Michael Murray
Jay

Alexis Knapp
Kat

Dayo Okeniyi
Andre

Kenny Wormald
Pete

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Critic Reviews for Cavemen

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (12)

Cavemen shows occasional glimmers of promise, but ultimately winds up feeling just like Jay's blowjob story: meandering, somewhat dull, and with little payoff.

February 7, 2014 | Rating: 2.0/5 | Full Review…

Jen Chaney
The Dissolve
An unevolved romantic comedy better suited to the Paleolithic Era.

February 7, 2014 | Full Review…

Geoff Berkshire
Variety
Herschel Faber, the writer and director here, didn't bother fleshing out these characters enough to make us give a hoot about them.

February 6, 2014 | Full Review…

Neil Genzlinger
New York Times
"Cavemen" writer-director Herschel Faber has sketched such a thin and unfunny look at L.A. singles, it should mark the death knell for movies about child-men on the make.

February 6, 2014 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
Cavemen is an apt title considering how the sensibility and maturity of the film's characters don't seem to have developed beyond primal, alpha-man impulses.

February 6, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Nick McCarthy
Slant Magazine
Apparently answering the unasked question, "What would happen if you told a 12-year-old at screenwriting camp to combine Swingers and (500) Days of Summer?"

February 5, 2014 | Full Review…

Alonso Duralde
TheWrap
...Cavemen boasts some entertaining and emotionally arced performances by Skylar Astin, Chad Michael Murray, Kenny Wormald and the lone gal in the group, Camilla Belle...

January 8, 2020 | Full Review…

Debbie Lynn Elias
Behind The Lens
Faber's tame observations seem more like a lost opportunity to say something fresh about dating.

August 29, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
A blockheaded, sigh-inducing retread that evinces neither any particular originality nor freshness of telling.

February 12, 2014 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…

Brent Simon
Paste Magazine
It's truly a mystery as to how this movie got made -- and why anybody (excluding horny L.A. guys) would want to see it.

February 5, 2014 | Full Review…

Shirley Sealy
Film Journal International
If I read this screenplay, I'd probably immediately ban Dean and Herschel from Hollywood.

February 4, 2014 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…

Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net
A 21st Century update of the Little Rascals' He-Man Woman Hater's Club episode where Alfalfa wises up and woos Darla, his Neanderthal pals' protestations notwithstanding.

January 25, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Kam Williams
Baret News

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Audience Reviews for Cavemen

Mar 14, 2015

A by-the-numbers sex comedy, Cavemen is a clichéd and formulaic film. The story follows an aspiring writer who finds himself unable to write about love (since he's never been), but he soon finds that he has feelings for his best friend when she starts dating one of his roommates. It's a painfully predictable plot, but is made bearable by the performances (as the actors have some charisma). And, the comedy is fairly well-done (though stereotypical). Cavemen isn't a bad film, it's just lazy and uninspired.

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