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- 2009
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
- 2009
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Benjamin, home-schooled by his eccentric mother, is a lovable 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 and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town’s most prolific homespun filmmaker. (Fox Searchlig...
Directed By: Jared Hess
Written By: Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess
- 2009
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
- 2009
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
Gentlemen Broncos
28
5.6
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Summary Benjamin, home-schooled by his eccentric mother, is a lovable 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 and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town’s most prolific homespun filmmaker. (Fox Searchlig...
Directed By: Jared Hess
Written By: Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
28
5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
33% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
62% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
28
5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
33% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
62% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
Teeming with socially awkward misfits, Gentlemen Broncos is not without its absurdist charms, although Hess (who co-scripted with his wife, Jerusha) pushes the envelope in ways it doesn't need pushing.
The director, Jared Hess, who made "Napoleon Dynamite," a film I admit I didn't get, has made a film I don't even begin to get.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 User Ratings
5.6
53% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
17% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
30% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 User Ratings
5.6
53% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
17% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
30% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
This film gets better with each watching. In the same way as Napoleon Dynamite, I wasn't sure what I was watching the first time I saw it, and upon repeat viewings I laughed harder and harder at all of the gloriously stupid jokes and excellent characters.
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If this film was an animal it would be a majestic eagle. It tickled me in all the right places and bought me tampons from stores I simply would not expect. 10/10
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Has little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness.
Crammed with so much deliberate tackiness that it borders on exhausting self-parody.
Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos.
Yep, Hess wrote and directed "Dynamite," and here's proof we shouldn't have rewarded him. The hollow "Broncos" is even more cruelly disdainful, designed primarily to scorn the pathetic lives within.
White is cast in this film as a “guardian angel” and adds another level of painful homosexual confusion and stereotyping to the film. Ultimately, all the chafing caused by Gentlemen Broncos is likely to leave you saddlesore.
I can't believe how harshly this movie was panned by critics when it came out. This movie is clever, original, and funny. It gets better on subsequent viewings when you start to really notice little things like a candy dish full of bullets or the attire of sci fi fans waiting in line for a book signing. This is the perfect movie to watch when you want to watch a movie and don't know what you are in the mood for.
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**** that the studio crapped its pants at the limited release reviews. This movie is funny, weird, wonderful. If it had gotten a wide release, it probably would have made its money back. Instead it soured Jared Hess' name (unfairly). RyanGee's comments: Jared and Jerusha Hess are married. Not siblings.
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Imitation is the sincerest form a flattery. It is apparent that the Hess siblings desiderated to fancy their own works with their newest film Gentlemen Broncos. To qualify, Gentlemen Broncos utilizes the same exact formula of a societal misfit used in both Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite. While those two comedic movies were both equally unique and humorous, Broncos feels stale, farcical, and ultimately, a waste of my time.
Gentlemen Broncos is a story of Benjamin(Michael Angarano), a home-schooled misfit, who inspires to become a prominent science fiction writer. Benjamin attends a writing workshop headed by Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), his paragon of an author, who steals his story leaving the characters in tangles of plagiarism and adaptation rights.
As a tenacious fan of Hessâ
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Production Company
Bronco Productions,
Rip Cord Productions
Release Date Oct 30, 2009
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating PG-13
Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
