SummarySarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) is a sensitive and naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her disillusioned mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and influencer sister (Taylour Paige). Working as a caregiver and just longing to be seen, she begins an exploratory affair with her older, married employer (Jon Bernthal), and is thrust into a s... Read More
Directed By:Lena Dunham
Written By:Lena Dunham
Sharp Stick
Metascore
Mixed or Average
53
User score
Generally Unfavorable
2.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
53
34% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
55% Mixed
16 Reviews
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10% Negative
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3 Reviews
Jan 23, 2022
100
Dunham has not lost her habit of exploring taboo and shocking scenarios. But just like this new film’s fluid, low key visual style and bright, poppy production design, the coming-of-age story it presents feels so organically conceived that what would surely be completely unacceptable in another context appears to obey the film’s own perverse set of rules with warmth and a refreshing lack of judgment.
Aug 3, 2022
70
In Sharp Stick, Dunham forces a flood of experience and pain into a compact vessel.
Aug 3, 2022
63
Uneven, ambiguous and unnerving, “Sharp Stick” undoubtedly has a point to make. What that is, precisely, might be subject to debate.
Jan 23, 2022
50
Sharp Stick, in its quick verbal exchanges, its naked sexuality, its general air of busting taboos as if they were oversize balloons, is recognizably a Lena Dunham movie. But it’s the first one of her projects in which the parts don’t quite add up, because it seems as if what we’re watching hasn’t been so much created as contrived.
Jul 29, 2022
40
Sharp Stick is charming thanks to great performances, but the lopsided script doesn’t reach its full potential.
Jul 25, 2022
16
Watching Sharp Stick is like encountering that pain box that Paul Atreides faces in Dune, only instead of a hand it’s your entire soul. Every moment is awkward, phony, excruciating, and just so unbelievably bad.
User score
Generally Unfavorable
2.8
17% Positive
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Feb 24, 2024
5
It's not a spoiler to announce that the attractive young woman (Kristine Froseth) taking care of a child ends up having an affair with the father (Jon Bernthal). Their fraught relationship is complicated by his pregnant wife (Lena Dunham, who also wrote and directed). Being that it's Dunham's project, you can expect some incisive observations and interesting characters. The script has some missteps, but luckily, the performances are the best thing about it (Bernthal is especially nuanced). This film is a lesser work by Dunham, possessing some of her undeniable perspective and indie production values, but lacking much comic flair or dramatic punch, including the ending.
Production Company:
- FilmNation Entertainment
- Good Thing Going
Release Date:Jul 29, 2022
Duration:1 h 26 m
Rating:R
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Awards
Americana Film Fest
• 1 Nomination
