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Chuck & Buck
Artisan Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and language
Starring
Mike White,
Chris Weitz,
Lupe Ontiveros,
and
Beth Colt
One of two childhood best friends who seems stuck in adolescence wants to become a big part of his old friend's life after his mother's death.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Mike White
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Miguel Arteta
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 19, 2000
Video: December 19, 2000
Theatrical: July 14, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The most resonant and haunting movie I've seen this year.

100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
One of the year's best and most provocative films.
100
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
One of the best films of the year. Queer in every sense of the word, it's poignant, laugh-out-loud funny and thoroughly provocative.

100
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Possibly the most daring and honest drama about sexuality I've ever seen.

100
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's all we ask of a film but almost never get, as it first makes us squirm, then makes us cheer.

90
Slate
David Edelstein
Might be the most perversely agreeable stalker picture ever made.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The kind of movie that gets under your skin and takes root.

88
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
You wouldn't think the darn thing would have such lingering power.
83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
For a picture about a stalker, Chuck and Buck is rather sweet, funny and winning.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Succeeds because it turns out not to be the movie it might so easily have been.

80
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Strange, intense and moving -- one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Had this idea been pursued to its conclusion instead of the pat, wishfully ready-for-TV ending we're fed, the movie would be a standout.

80
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Manages to be not only consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Chuck and Buck: A fungus among us.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
An oddity, but a remarkably intriguing and original one, and in Buck ... it also has the most unforgettable movie character of the year.
75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
A reverse male-bonding tale unlike anything you've ever seen. And it's not the easiest good movie to sit through.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A fascinating study of behavior that violates the rules.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Comes on like an "After School Special'' psychodrama that's been taken off its medication.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
It becomes stronger and more honest than most character studies on film.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The acting is excellent.

70
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
Arteta and White manage to bring off both the comedy and the tenderness in this tale of a jilted friend who sticks to his passions like chewing gum on a shoe.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The "Citizen Kane" of twisted-geek movies.

70
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Despite Arteta's best efforts, I eventually stopped caring about their bond because Chuck's character is conceived as such a two-dimensional yuppie.
70
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A provocative and uncomfortable comedy.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Almost too creepy to be poignant, and generally funny only in an uncomfortable, squirm-in-your seat way.
63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Its premise is so promising that you long for more than Arteta's low-key approach can deliver.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Arteta wrings some laughs from their bizarre (and more than a little frightening situation), but they're uncomfortable laughs, emotional protection from the freak show.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
(Arteta's) yanked an eerily accomplished performance out of his lead actor.

30
Time
Richard Schickel
Crude and inept.
25
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Unlike other movies about unpleasant characters, "In the Company of Men," for example, Chuck & Buck doesn't have that sharp observational edge.

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