Metacritic Film

Neo Ned

Starring Jeremy Renner, Gabrielle Union, Sally Kirkland, Cary Elwes, Summer LeAnn, Robert Peters, Steve Railsback, and Ethan Suplee

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Kismet Entertainment Group
Drama  |  Romance
97 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 8, 2006

They say opposites attract. What about a misguided racist who falls for a Black woman in a mental institution? What starts out as an impossible connection of opposites slowly turns into a wild, emotional story of love, romance, and disillusionment revolving around two people who shouldn't be together, but after meeting them you'll know they should never be apart. (Neo Ned, LLC)

WRITTEN BY
Tim Boughn

DIRECTED BY
Van Fischer

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

71 / 100

Critic Reviews

90 Film Threat Mark Bell
A gem of a film that explores race relations, genetic fate and the allure of family, Neo Ned is a quality feat of filmmaking.
70 Variety John Anderson
Neo Ned may be ludicrous on paper, but it has what fans of independent film are looking for -- atmosphere, humanity and just a dash of fantastic drama.
70 Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
Neo Ned is exactly the kind of production -- scrappy, flawed and a little odd -- that should exemplify the very notion of "independent film."
60 LA Weekly Matthew Duersten
The problem lies in the film's inability to decide whether such loaded images are funny in a Farrelly Brothers/Dave Chapelle kind of way or if they mean something deeper. The terrific lead performances only heighten this confusion.

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