Gentlemen Broncos

MPAA Rating: PG-13

for some crude humor.

Review coming from Contributor: Raphael Vera, by Nov. 1

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Primary Audience:

Teens, Adults

Genre:

Comedy

Length:

1 hr. 29 min.

Year of Release:

2009

USA Release:

October 30, 2009 (limited)

Copyright, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

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Featuring:	Sam Rockwell (Bronco/Brutus), Michael Angarano, John Baker, Robin Ballard, Steve Berg, Jemaine Clement, Kristie Conway, Jennifer Coolidge, Rod Decker, Isaac Demke, Halley Feiffer, Johnny Hoops, Héctor Jiménez, Jizelle Jade Jurquina, Daniel Love, Suzanne May, Edgar Oliver, Josh Pais, John Pleshette, Jeanette Puhich, Clive Revill, Isaac Russell, Jon Shere, Brian Unger, Edward Osborn, Benji Hughes, Mike White, Roger Dertinger, Johnny Ahn, Beau Dunn, Larry Filion, Matt Jordon, Toiya Leatherwood, Heather Kelly McShane, Ben Naccarato, Jacob Shamy, Patrick Zook
Director:	Jared Hess
Producer:	Rip Cord Productions, Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, John J. Kelly, Ben LeClair, Duff Rich, Mike White
Distributor:	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

“From the director of ‘Nacho Libre’ and ‘Napolean Dynamite’ comes another unique view of the world.”

Producer’s Synopsis: “A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

Benjamin (Michael Angarano), homeschooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge), is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him onf an ofbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker.”

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Movie Critics

…“Gentlemen Broncos” treats all its characters like jokes, and they're unfunny jokes at that.…
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

…seems dedicated to fetishizing the offbeat at any cost. In the case of his latest film, that cost is particularly steep, as it includes humor, inventiveness, and a general sense of purpose.…
—Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

…Napoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in “Gentlemen Broncos,”…
—Peter Debruge, Variety

…a misfire… I began to wonder how many evacuations a comedy can deliver before they ruin the joke. The spray of vomit that inspired this question had just shot out of the mouth of the hapless teenager at the center of the new movie, an emission preceded or followed by (I lost track) a geyser of snake feces and some nonreptilian, if equally repellent, defecation.…
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

……Being a traditional coming of age picture underneath, it also mixes a sweet, morally salubrious outcome with strangeness and gross-out humor.… “Gentlemen Broncos” is less warped than it thinks it is yet still provides enough bizarre, painstakingly designed schlock to tickle the willing.…
—John P. McCarthy, Boxoffice Magazine

…Too many hitches in its giddyap… If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear that Gentlemen Broncos was made by a disaffected high school student – and not a particularly talented one.…
—Claudia Puig, USA Today