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Harry and Max

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama
Written by: Christopher Münch
Directed by: Christopher Münch
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 4, 2005
DVD: July 19, 2005
Running Time: 74 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Bryce Johnson, Cole Williams, Rain Phoenix, Tom Gilroy, Michelle Phillips, Justin Zachary, and Katherine Ellis
Harry (Johnson), aged 23, is a former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max (Williams), aged 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry escorts Max on a long-promised camping adventure to the San Gabriel mountains above Los Angeles but things quickly turn serious as the boys discuss Harry's contradictory relationship with their family. (TLA Releasing)
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What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
One of the film's oddest missteps is in making the boy-band gig just another occupation, instead of using it as a central way to illuminate the brothers' unusual bond.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
To consider Harry and Max as being about incestuous feelings would be shortchanging it, because the film is really about the evolving nature of love and the need to define it.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Munch's usual stylishness and casual storytelling tenor lend persuasion to this curious drama about two brothers, both teen music idols, who demonstrate an incestuous attraction.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Intermittently insightful, but a disappointment from the talented Munch.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
For all its maturity - and nice performances from Johnson and Phoenix - the film winds up dancing around the 500-lb gorilla in the middle of the room rather than facing the pathology of its real subject head-on.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Provocative without being especially thoughtful or credible, Harry and Max registers as a severe disappointment coming from this talented filmmaker.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
It's one of those rare movie failures that truly warrants being called ambitious.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Brad Slager
Christopher Munch wrote and directed this feature and it is nearly impossible not to feel deep-seated anger towards him for what he has wrought on screen.
Read Full Review >New York Post Debra Birnbaum
If boy bands weren't already passé, Harry and Max would finish the job.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
There are brave, boundary-breaching movies, and there are mad, foolhardy ones. Harry and Max belongs to the latter breed.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The most shocking thing about Harry and Max isn't the subject matter. The most shocking thing is just how tepid it is.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
