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- Synopsis
- A high-school reject gets ripped off by a famous fantasy author at a writing camp in this comedy from director Jared Hess (Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynamite)....
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- Director(s)
- Jared Hess
- Distributor(s)
- Fox Searchlight
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 89 min.
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Critic Reviews
Has little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness.Read the full review
Napoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in Gentlemen Broncos, the latest oddball character portrait from one-trick helmer Jared Hess.Read the full review
A comedy that can’t even admit to its own overwhelming sense of disgust.Read the full review
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11% Gentlemen Broncos
11/06/09 Unselfconsciously juvenile and overwhelmingly quirky, Gentlemen Broncos offers a lot of potty humor but isn't terribly funny. | Rotten Tomatoes -
Loser comedy 'Broncos' is awkward
11/05/09 There's something a little tired about Gentlemen Broncos, another tale of geeks and losers from Napoleon Dynamite filmmaker Jared Hess. | JAM! Showbiz -
15% Gentlemen Broncos
11/04/09 Unselfconsciously juvenile and overwhelmingly quirky, Gentlemen Broncos offers a lot of potty humor but isn't terribly funny. | Rotten Tomatoes -
Box Office: “Devil,” “Saints” and “Broncos” In Hallowe’en Opener Battle
11/01/09 While "Michael Jackson's This Is It" amassed a stunning $101 million worldwide (though only a somewhat disappointing $21.3 million of that came from North America), three specialty openers attempted to get folks into cinemas in the midst of their Hallowe'en festivities. | indieWIRE -
12% Gentlemen Broncos
10/30/09 Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge), is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat 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. | Rotten Tomatoes -
18% Gentlemen Broncos
10/29/09 Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge), is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat 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. | Rotten Tomatoes -
Film: Review:Gentlemen Broncos
10/29/09 As any fashion magazine can tell you, the trick to retro kitsch is moderation. | The A.V. Club -
cinemadaily | “Gentlemen Broncos” Bucks US Audiences
10/29/09 In New York Magazine , David Edelstein calls the film an "enchantingly freakish comedy" and says of Clement's performance, "Even if you love him on 'Flight of the Conchords,' you'll be unprepared for his genius—and charisma." | indieWIRE -
Massawyrm admonishes the bully porn that is GENTLEMEN BRONCOS!!
10/29/09 If you're going to make a movie within a movie that is supposed to be utterly ridiculous satire – and never for a moment what anyone would dare to call good - then it is of the utmost importance that this sequence not be more engaging than the movie surrounding it. | Ain't It Cool News -
Jared Hess Draws on Real Life for Gentlemen Broncos
10/28/09 Critics may not get Jared Hess' "Gentlemen Broncos" -- heck, his own grandmother doesn't think his filmmaking carer will last -- but he's just doing what he's always done: taking inspiration from his own life. | Rotten Tomatoes