SummaryAsthmatic artist Gus (Benedict Samuel) has hit bottom. With nothing to lose, he steals a Rolls Royce in an attempt to win over his tattoo artist crush, Ruby (Krysten Ritter). The pair embarks on a wayward journey that takes them everywhere from a neo-hippie commune to the bedside of Gus’ gravely ill mother as they come to terms with their feeling... Read More
Directed By:Jake Hoffman
Written By:Jake Hoffman
Asthma
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Oct 20, 2015
63
Asthma inevitably becomes another film about a man airing out his traumas and hitting all the requisite marks on his path to healing.
Oct 22, 2015
42
The problems run far deeper than craft — it is simply a film that has no reason to be made, a story without point or insight or drive.
Oct 29, 2015
40
The soundtrack is fantastic and Samuel eminently watchable, but "Asthma" suffers from near-lethal doses of self-satisfied hipness.
Oct 28, 2015
30
Ritter’s performance is the liveliest thing in a callow, shallow cautionary tale, which wears its influences on its artfully frayed sleeve and no closer than that to its heart.
Oct 28, 2015
30
Lack of originality and self-awareness prove to be a fatal combination. There is something way too familiar about Hoffman's rites-of-passage portrait of wasted youth, with its inevitable soundtrack of fashionable angst-rock and predictably retro-cool cult-movie influences.
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Jan 15, 2016
8
I would say that this is not the best movie that I've ever seen, but it certainly is watchable. Don't know if I watch it a second time, but hey I managed to end it in one go. Familiar faces like Krysten Ritter, Iggy Pop, Goran Visnjic and Nick Nolte appear throughout the movie, trying not to spoil how much some of them are really present. I liked the performance from "The B From Apartment 23", she was somehow different and more natural, feminine-like. Visnjic was unrecognizable, and acted fairly good, so job well done on that costume and character. By the way, Benedict Samuel looks like that in real life, so I'm not really sure if it is acting, or not.
Production Company:
- Out Of The Woods Productions
- Sunny Field Entertainment
- Thank You, Brain! Productions
Release Date:Oct 23, 2015
Duration:1 h 30 m
