Duck Butter

Name: Duck Butter
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: April 27, 2018
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Alia Shawkat, Cassandra Borges, Deborah Adair, Hong Chau, Jay Duplass

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| Release Date: April 27, 2018 | TV-MA

Starring: Alia Shawkat, Cassandra Borges, Deborah Adair, Hong Chau, Jay Duplass, Jenny O'Hara, Kate Berlant, Kumail Nanjiani, LaDonna Adams, Laia Costa, Lindsay Burdge, Mae Whitman, Marc Maron, Mark Duplass

Summary: Two women, who are dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating and relationships, decide to make a pact to spend 24 hours together hoping to find a new way to create intimacy.

Director: Miguel Arteta

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 93 min

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Katie Walsh

Apr 26, 2018

Shawkat's writerly voice in Duck Butter is deeply personal and probing. The film is funny and honest and Arteta, working with cinematographer Hillary Spera, balances the intimate material with a light, airy sensuality. Shawkat and Costa each give intensely powerful performances, and together they are magnetic. Read full review

Emily Yoshida

Apr 27, 2018

Duck Butter is a lot — I felt dizzy upon leaving the theater, like I myself had just gone through that same wired 24 hours the protagonists did. For that, I have to give Arteta and Shawkat props — and as the writing debut for the latter, it isn’t shabby at all Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Apr 26, 2018

The movie amounts to a tame, forgettable doodle, as if designed to imitate the scruffy Duplass movies that Naima worships; for Shawcat, however, it’s a promising step in a new direction that suggests a far more confident artist than the one she plays onscreen. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 16, 2018

Miguel Arteta did “Chuck & Buck” and “The Good Girl,” and in star and co-writer Alia Shawcat, of “Arrested Development” and the TBS series “Search Party,” he’s got a collaborator willing to put it all out there and forget her comic crutches for an intimate, damaged and personal story packed into day and night of enforced intimacy with somebody who might “be the one.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Apr 27, 2018

Co-written by Shawkat and Arteta, there is an unshakable theme in here about two artistic women trying to find their voice. It’s more of an issue that Duck Butter makes up what it wants to say as it goes along. Read full review

Richard Brody

Apr 26, 2018

The exaggerated, unambiguous expressivity and the connect-the-dots definitions of character (featuring pat confessions and reheated memories) reflect the closed-off academicism of acting workshops and screenplay pitches rather than the open-ended complexities of life. Read full review

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Apr 25, 2018

I’m still hopeful about Shawkat’s screenwriting career — especially since her performance always feels so genuine, adding substance to an otherwise deflated story. But other than the script’s daring premise, the material doesn’t rise up to the potential she hints at here: a comedy of ingenuity that takes advantage of Shawkat’s fearless frankness. Read full review

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Dec 14, 2018

What starts with a lot of potential quickly devolves into a slow, plodding, cliche-ridden indie lesbian film.

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