SummaryA satirical comedy about a college sorority girl (Ricci) who finds herself drawn into a relationship with a young disabled man (Harris).
Directed By:Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder
Written By:Adam Larson Broder
Pumpkin
Metascore
Mixed or Average
46
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
46
29% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Mixed
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21% Negative
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88
Is alive, and takes chances, and uses the wicked blade of satire in order to show up the complacent political correctness of other movies in its campus genre.
70
An odd and oddly endearing romantic black comedy.
60
It rebounds in the last moments and I thought successfully blended satire, high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie.
50
After a lively start -- the sorority sisters, shaken by the slightest imperfection in themselves, cannot cope with handicapped athletes -- the film smooths its rough edges and reduces complex characters to sitcom stooges. Call it an opportunity missed.
40
The satire is broad and easy, while the romance is thoroughly unconvincing.
30
Begins as though the filmmakers imagine that they're making a daringly anti-p.c. serio-comedy, but long before it's over, the picture is wearing its bleeding liberal heart all over its sleeve.
0
An amazing film amazingly tasteless, tin-eared and awkward, but amazing all the same. Anyone with a predilection for bad movies might want to see it, if only in an inspecting-the-wreckage spirit, since because movies this misguided come but once or twice a year.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
57% Positive
4 Ratings
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43% Mixed
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Jan 30, 2022
7
So good. Makes it even better that the people it's satirizing hate it. I was cracking up half the film.
May 29, 2012
5
A strange movie, that mixes satire and moralistic drama. In it's satire it works quite well, similar in tone to Wet Hot American Summer. But it then also has the dramatic, emotional romance that it tries to mix into the rest of the film. Sometimes the balance works great, but others it just spoils the tone. It's as if American Psycho and Pride and Prejudice were edited together. I feel like it compares a lot to the movie Saved, which came out a couple of years after Pumpkin. I feel works a lot better, it mixes comedy with romantic drama a lot more fluently in a similar elitist-school setting, and I just wish Pumpkin didn't have to be quite so heavy-handed in it's moralistic journey.
Production Company:
- American Zoetrope
- Bona Fide Productions
- Pumpkin Productions LLC
- United Artists
Release Date:Jun 28, 2002
Duration:1 h 53 m
Rating:R
Tagline:A comedy for the romantically challenged.
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Teen Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination
Torino Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
