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Harry and Max

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Harry and Max reviews
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4.5 User Score:

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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)

What The Critics Said

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60

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.

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60

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.

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50

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.

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50

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Intermittently insightful, but a disappointment from the talented Munch.

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50

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.

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50

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.

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30

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

It's one of those rare movie failures that truly warrants being called ambitious.

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30

Village Voice Melissa Anderson

A swirl of messy boundaries and loony dialogue.

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30

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.

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25

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Too superficial to shock or surprise.

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25

New York Post Debra Birnbaum

If boy bands weren't already passé, Harry and Max would finish the job.

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20

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.

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0

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.

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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.

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