gummo

[1badjedi]

what the fock!? i thought i saw some strange movies before but this one trumped em all. this movie could have been called welcome to retardedville. was it supposed to be a documentary??? :ugh:

anyway i dont know wtf the point of this movie was other than to show that the midwest is full of inbreds. morbid curiosity was the only thing that kept me watching.

i give this movie 1/5 and that was for some chloe sevigny tittie shots. other than that this movie was garbage from start to finish. the last thing i need to be reminded of is that there are way too many of these types of people here in america on the loose. :O

[Mole]

I found it to be a pretty terrible and bizarre movie, yet there's something about it that keeps you watching.

[EG]

what the fock!? i thought i saw some strange movies before but this one trumped em all. this movie could have been called welcome to retardedville. was it supposed to be a documentary??? :ugh:

anyway i dont know wtf the point of this movie was other than to show that the midwest is full of inbreds. morbid curiosity was the only thing that kept me watching.

i give this movie 1/5 and that was for some chloe sevigny tittie shots. other than that this movie was garbage from start to finish. the last thing i need to be reminded of is that there are way too many of these types of people here in america on the loose. :O

Should I mail em some of my prozac :confused: works wonders for me. Although the dreams about you and Opus having sex with W keep coming back. :eek: (shudder)

btw...link biznatch

[LOL Internet]

I've had that on my "weird stuff to torrent" list for ages. :shrug:

[bt_refugee]

Does it have a bit in it where some kid rides a bike into a fence for a laugh?

[Mole]

I don't remember that, but there's a part where some kids are playing cowboys or something, and they talk some of the most severe white-trash vulgarity you can't even imagine. There's 2 kids that go around killing stray cats, for the purpose of selling them to this guy at a grocery story, who sells them to a Chinese restaurant. He also gives them some glue for the purpose of huffing.

There's also a part where this redneck wrestles with a chair like it's a person. Before that scene, another redneck loses in arm wrestling to someone less than half his size.

A lot of the scenes in the movie weren't scripted, they were just recordings of random residents of some awful white-trash town.

[bt_refugee]

some of the most severe white-trash vulgarity you can't even imagine.

:lol: Quotes?

[Mole]

There's this kid with pink bunny ears who skateboard all around the town, and he runs into the trash-talking cowboy kids. They pretend to shoot him, and he collapses and plays dead. While he's playing dead, they say stuff like: "this fucking rabbit stinks... He smells like pussy... he smells like wetback dick..."

[bt_refugee]

he smells like wetback dick...

ROTF... :lol:

That one's getting used this weekend!

:lol:

[EG]

There's this kid with pink bunny ears who skateboard all around the town, and he runs into the trash-talking cowboy kids. They pretend to shoot him, and he collapses and plays dead. While he's playing dead, they say stuff like: "this fucking rabbit stinks... He smells like pussy... he smells like wetback dick..."

dayum...thats funny..especially since its not my kids.....

[1badjedi]

A lot of the scenes in the movie weren't scripted, they were just recordings of random residents of some awful white-trash town.


sounds about right.

the part where they paid to bang the retarded chick was sad. she looked like a fun house clown. if those 2 kids were not acting they should really be neutered. shit most of that town should be spayed.

lol even the lone black dude was all fucked up. :lol: 3 ft tall with a head like the alien ripley had to fight.

the really sad thing is i know people like some of those in the movie. the one drunk at the party who ripped the table and chair apart i've seen too many times. and the 2 dudes who were body boxing each other and it almost turned into a real fight. i've seen plenty of them dudes.

[Cop]

I should watch that movie again, so I can shake my head some more. Seems like Harmony Korine has that talent, cuz I shake my head a lot during the movies he's written, like Ken Park and Kids...

[EG]

Actually the cast was all people she recruited except for four SAG members.



Jacob Reynolds (Solomon)
13-year-old Jacob Reynolds' two previous feature film credits are The Road to Wellville and Life With Mikey, along with a national Ritz Crackers ad. Reynolds is a model student who took advanced coursework at home during the filming of Gummo. He is an avid trumpet player, equestrian and soccer player. Reynolds also enjoys reading; some of his favorite books include The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Nick Sutton (Tummler)
This 17-year-old native Washingtonian was spotted by Korine during an episode of "The Sally Jesse Raphael Show" about former troubled teenagers. Korine flew Sutton to New York, where the teenager won the role of Tummler after an eight hour improvisational session.
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Jacob Sewell (Bunny Boy)
A native of Nashville, 14-year-old Jacob Sewell spends his non-movie hours honing his considerable skateboarding skills.



Darby Dougherty (Darby)
10-year-old Darby Dougherty lives in Nashville, where she passes the time by torturing her sister (who also has a small part in Gummo).


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Chloe Sevigny (Dot)/Costume Designer
Chloe Sevigny made her film debut in the highly acclaimed and controversial hit Kids. Her portrayal of a teenage girl desperately searching for the boy who infected her with the AIDS virus won Sevigny a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards. Last year, Sevigny starred in Steve Buscemi's directorial debut, Trees Lounge, which debuted in the Directors' Fortnight at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Sevigny is currently in production on Palmetto, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, opposite Woody Harrelson and Elisabeth Shue.
In addition to playing the character of Dot, Sevigny also took a behind the scenes role as Gummo's costume designer. Her awareness of youth culture and fashion helped the film achieve its rich, realistic look. To capture the film's intended textures, she spent hours combing Nashville's thrift stores and made whatever clothes she couldn't find.

Carisa Bara (Helen)
Carisa Bara made her feature film debut in Kids. Gummo is her second film.


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Linda Manz (Solomon's Mom)

Linda Manz catapulted to fame as the teenage star of Terence Malick's Days of Heaven. She followed up the role with turns in The Wanderers and Out of the Blue. Manz currently lives in Northern California and is the mother of three boys.
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Max Perlich (Cole)

A versatile actor at home in both independent and commercial film, Max Perlich's credits include Truth or Consequences, N.M., Beautiful Girls, Georgia, Maverick, Drugstore Cowboy and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He recently completed work on Roland Joffe's Goodbye Lover. Perlich is a regular on the much-lauded television series "Homicide: Life on the Streets;" his other television credits include appearances on "L.A. Law" and "My Two Dads."



About the Filmmakers
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Harmony Korine (Writer/Director)
Harmony Korine was born in Bolinas, CA in 1974. His family moved to the East Coast when he was five and he spent his early years in Nashville and New York. At the age of 19, he wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay Kids for director Larry Clark. He is currently at work writing a new feature and a 10 part decalogue called Jokes to be financed through French investors.
Cary Woods (Producer)
As a producer of both mainstream commercial films and cutting-edge independents, Cary Woods has achieved both critical and box-office success. In 1996, his productions included Swingers, Beautiful Girls, and Citizen Ruth, for which Laura Dern won the Best Actress Award at the Montreal Film Festival. Working on a broader canvas, Woods also produced Wes Craven's blockbuster post-modern thriller Scream, and is executive producer of Godzilla currently shooting in Manhattan.
Woods began his career as an agent at The William Morris Agency, where he brought together two of the most influential and acclaimed independent features of the 1980s, Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy and Michael Lehmann's Heathers. As a producer, his credits include Larry Clark's directorial debut, Kids, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Rudy and Only You; he was executive producer of the critically praised independent film Threesome. Woods's upcoming films include Copland, starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel; and A New Leaf, a remake of the 1971 Elaine May comedy, rewritten by Golden Globe winners Scott Alexander and Larry Karasewski (The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Ed Wood).
Robin O'Hara and Scott Macaulay (Co-Producers)

Robin O'Hara and Scott Macaulay are independent film producers whose first project together was Tom Noonan's What Happened Was ..., winner of the 1994 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. O'Hara and Macaulay also produced Noonan's The Wife, as well as Lewis Klahr's The Pharoah's Belt, which won the Special Award for Excellence from the National Society of Film Critics, 1994; Tamara Jenkins' episode of PBS's "TV Families" series, "Family Remains," winner of the Best Short Film Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival; and Herbert Beigel's feature Camp Stories starring Elliot Gould, Jerry Stiller and Paul Sand. With Beigel, O'Hara and Macaulay recently formed the production company Forensic Films and are in production on Jesse Peretz's debut feature, First Love, Last Rites starring Giovanni Ribisi, Natasha Gregson Wagner and Robert John Burke.
Individually, O'Hara has produced and line-produced films by such directors as Alain Resnais, Zbig Rybczynski, Rob Nilsson, Charles Atlas and Michael Almereyda. She line-produced Chantal Ackerman's A Couch in New York; Goran Paskeljevic's Someone Else's America and Channel Four's upcoming A Further Gesture starring Stephen Rea.
In addition to his producing work, Macaulay is also the editor of Filmmaker magazine, a national quarterly devoted to American independent film. His other producing credits include Raul Ruiz's feature The Golden Boat (as associate producer), and Janie Geiser's short Red Book, which was selected for the 1996 New Directors/New Films Festival. From 1985-1992, Macaulay was the programming director of The Kitchen, New York's center of contemporary video and performing arts. Among the artists Macaulay produced at The Kitchen were Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Karen Finley, Living Color, John Zorn, David Cale, John Jesurun, Heiner Mueller, La Fura dels Baus, and Survival Research Laboratories.
Jean Yves Escoffier (Director of Photography)
One of the world's most admired cinematographers, Jean Yves Escoffier has worked extensively on both sides of the Atlantic. He is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking work with director Leos Carax on the films Les Amants du Pont Neuf, Mauvais Sang and Boy Meets Girl. Escoffier's American films include Allison Anders's Grace of My Heart, The Crow: City of Angels, and Paul Schrader's HBO film, Witch Hunt. Escoffier has received numerous awards for his work, including the European Felix for Les Amants de Pont Neuf, a Cesar for Trois Hommes et Un Couffin (Three Men and a Cradle) and the Louis Leduc Award for Mauvais Sang (for which he also was nominated for a Cesar Award). Escoffier won the Cesar Award for his work on the short film Ulysse, directed by Agnes Varda, and he has shot many commercials with such directors as Lars Von Trier, Jean Baptiste Mondino and Luc Besson. He also shot Martin Scorsese's short film, 100 Years of American Cinema.
Christopher Tellefsen (Editor)
Christopher Tellefsen returns to work with Harmony Korine on Gummo, having edited the critically acclaimed controversial Kids (from a script by Korine) in 1995. Tellefsen's recent work includes Milos Forman's The People Vs. Larry Flynt, last year's all-star screwball comedy Flirting with Disaster and Blue in the Face, the improvised collage companion piece to the film Smoke. Also to his credit are Whit Stillman's urbane comedies Metropolitan and Barcelona. Currently, Tellefsen is finishing work with Wayne Wang on Chinese Box, a love story set against the 1997 handover of colonial Hong Kong to Mainland China, starring Jeremy Irons and Gong Li.
Dave Doernberg (Production Designer)
Dave Doernberg's experience as a production designer encompasses short and feature films, music videos and television commercials. His film credits include the features Girl's Town and River of Grass, as well as Tom Kalin's short Plain Pleasures. Among Doernberg's music video credits are clips by such artists as Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. As Gummo's production designer, he had the challenging responsibility of meeting the physical needs of the production while not altering many of the "found" objects on site. This is Doernberg's second project with Korine; he was also prop master on Larry Clark's Kids.
Randall Poster (Music Supervisor)
Gummo reunites Randall Poster with director Harmony Korine, producer Cary Woods and editor Christopher Tellefson, with whom he worked on Larry Clark's Kids. Poster's recent credits include Richard Linklater's SubUrbia, Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol, Nigel Finch's Stonewall, Norman Rene's Reckless and Sean Penn's The Crossing Guard. Poster also supervised the music for Griffin Dunne's Addicted To Love, and his future projects include Todd Hayne's glam-rock fantasia Velvet Goldmine, Danny Boyle's Trainspotting follow-up, A Life Less Ordinary, and Dan Minehan's Simply Halston.
About Fine Line Features
Current and upcoming Fine Line releases include Paul Weiland's For Roseanna, starring Jean Reno, Mercedes Ruehl and Polly Walker; Jim Wilson's Head Above Water, starring Harvey Keitel, Cameron Diaz, Craig Sheffer and Billy Zane; Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley and Bruce Greenwood; Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry, starring Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Richard Benjamin, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Demi Moore, Elisabeth Shue, Stanley Tucci and Robin Williams; and Alan Rickman's directorial debut, The Winter Guest, starring Emma Thompson and her actress mother Phyllida Law.

[EG]

here is the official moneymaking website

http://www.finelinefeatures.com/gummo/index.html

[Chunk_Le_Funk]

If you like Larry Clark and seen the movie Kids then you need to check out Bully.
I watched that over the weekend, talk about WTF and soft teen porn. It's based on a true story.

[Cop]

Larry Clark's most WTF movie I've seen to date has got to be "Teenage Caveman". Same ingredients as usual (kids, sex, booze and drugs) but + gore/monster...

Ken Park has seriously WTF moments as well...

[1badjedi]

Now well into his 60s, Clark continues to document teen/youth culture almost exclusively.


sounds like the classic pedo perv to me. and he gets paid to do it. :ugh:

[Mole]

The entire movie is uploaded on YouTube, BTW.