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  • 2005
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2005
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m

Summary 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 f...

Directed By: Christopher Munch

Written By: Christopher Munch

  • 2005
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2005
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m

Harry + Max

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
31
User Score Generally Favorable
6.8
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Summary 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 f...

Directed By: Christopher Munch

Written By: Christopher Munch

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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46% Mixed
6 Reviews
54% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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46% Mixed
6 Reviews
54% Negative
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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.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
50
Provocative without being especially thoughtful or credible, Harry and Max registers as a severe disappointment coming from this talented filmmaker.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
Intermittently insightful, but a disappointment from the talented Munch.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
30
It's one of those rare movie failures that truly warrants being called ambitious.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
30
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
Too superficial to shock or surprise.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
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The most shocking thing about Harry and Max isn't the subject matter. The most shocking thing is just how tepid it is.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
6.8
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Production Company Antarctic Pictures
Release Date Feb 4, 2005
Duration 1 h 14 m
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Tagline Brothers like no others.
Website https://mt2.org/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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