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Full Grown Men
Emerging Pictures

Full Grown Men reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 47 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.5 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Alan Cumming, Debbie Harry, Amy Sedaris, Joie Lee, David Ilku, and Jerry Grayson

Set in a stylized yet familiar landscape of Americana, Munro’s whimsical cautionary tale follows Alby Cutrera, a 35-year-old husband and father who longs for the days of his carefree boyhood when his only occupation was playing with his action figures. Desperate to escape the confines of adulthood and return to his halcyon days, Alby tracks down his childhood whipping boy Elias, who now teaches at a special needs school, and persuades him to take a road trip to Diggityland – their favorite childhood theme park. As the dynamic duo motor along Florida’s tatty Orange Blossom Highway, they encounter a cast of tragicomic creatures, including an AWOL ex-theme park employee turned commando hitchhiker, an oversexed bartending clown-in-training, and a trailer-dwelling delusional mermaid . Calamity and mayhem ensue as Alby and Elias’ sentimental trip down memory lane becomes an unsolicited lesson in the perils of living in the past. (Emerging Pictures)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Xandra Castleton
David Munro
 
DIRECTED BY: David Munro  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: June 25, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A poignant, quirky and effective alternative to the usual soulless, computer-generated summer fare.
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70
LA Weekly F. X. Feeney
Lyrical and funny, Full Grown Men is a tough-minded film about the need to grow up.
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63
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
It's dramatically unsatisfying.
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58
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Full Grown Men often becomes as intolerably silly as the twee Amerindies it's reacting to.
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50
Variety Justin Chang
A strong cast, beautiful production values and generally pleasant execution can't disguise the fact both laughs and surprises are on the thin side here, despite the abundant care and affection lavished on the central characters by first-time writer-director David Munro.
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50
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Full Grown Men marks the feature debut of director David Munro, who was born and raised in Miami and shoots Florida like a native.
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50
Film Threat Mark Bell
In the end, Full Grown Men tells an amusing tale, and the cameo scenes from Alan Cumming and Amy Sedaris are not to be missed.
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40
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Friedlander offers a nicely subtle performance, but the other actors - including Alan Cumming, Deborah Harry and Amy Sedaris - appear to have turned up as a favor to the director. Don't feel obliged to follow their lead.
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40
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Obviously, Munro is reaching for something about how people allow themselves to get mired in the past. But his characters and situations are so exaggerated and dreary that his point gets quickly lost.
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40
Village Voice Ed Gonzalez
For better and for worse (at least for a story about a man struggling to behave like an adult), Full Grown Men feels and thinks with the heart and mind of a child.
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38
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Nicely photographed and has impressive sets; too bad there's so little going on that it seems long even at 78 minutes.
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30
The New York Times Stephen Holden
This candy-colored movie, whose soft hues match the colored cereal loops that Alby devours at his mother's house, is a post-Freudian fable that wants to be a kind of anti-"Wizard of Oz" for a culture inundated with toys and toons.
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