Dumbstruck
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  • Summary: Dumbstruck is the humorous and heartfelt story of these performers as they pursue their dreams of a career in puppetry. The film follows them as they take their acts across the United States, the Mexican Riviera, the Bahamas and Japan. It is filled with music, laughter, hopes and heartbreak. With its heart firmly planted on its polyester sleeve, Dumbstruck takes the American dream sideways and never loses its. (Truly Indie) … Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    Apr 12, 2011
    70
    The spotlight illuminates a well-chosen quintet of subjects, all wholesomely passionate practitioners of a readily dissed form of entertainment and each at a different point in their career.
  2. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Mark Keizer
    Apr 26, 2011
    60
    The resulting distillation is brisk, light and engaging with none of the cheap shots that usually accompany any discussion of ventriloquism. If anything, Goffman is too gentle, refusing to pursue his charges into their darker corners.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alison Willmore
    Apr 21, 2011
    58
    The film's tendency to pull away once its character start their performances adds to the sense that director Mark Goffman knows his money shots will showcase the vents' oddities rather than their acts.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
    Jun 2, 2011
    50
    A minor but sometimes touching documentary.

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