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  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m
Stuff and Dough

Summary Ovidiu, a young man who runs his own business selling snacks and soft drinks out of his parents' apartment, wants to expand and buy a kiosk, but he doesn't have the "dough." A local mafioso offers him an impressive amount of money for an apparently simple job: he has to take a bag to Bucharest to a specific address. It seems, however, th...

Written By: Cristi Puiu, Razvan Radulescu

  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Stuff and Dough

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Ovidiu, a young man who runs his own business selling snacks and soft drinks out of his parents' apartment, wants to expand and buy a kiosk, but he doesn't have the "dough." A local mafioso offers him an impressive amount of money for an apparently simple job: he has to take a bag to Bucharest to a specific address. It seems, however, th...

Written By: Cristi Puiu, Razvan Radulescu

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Low-budget triumph.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
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It's a terrific little movie, gritty, real, ironic, ruthless and deeply humane.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
80
The brilliance of Stuff and Dough is that it wraps this powerful, disturbing drama in an anecdote from ordinary life. As is often the case in recent Romanian movies, the acting is so accomplished as to be invisible.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
75
Dryly funny, deceptively simple road movie that quietly reveals the state of contemporary Romanian life.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
Puiu seems content to embrace the dynamism of youth and possibility; if "Lazarescu" was a movie of dead ends, Stuff and Dough is one, quite literally, of open roads.
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67
There's no question of the mood Puiu means to capture, the sullen anomie of a rootless generation, but too often, he's just spinning his wheels.
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Production Company Mandragora, RoFilms
Release Date Apr 23, 2008
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
FilmFestival Cottbus (FFC)
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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