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  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 20 m
Sylvio

Summary It's the story of a small town gorilla, Sylvio, who is stuck in his job at a debt collection agency. Deep down he just wants to express himself with his hand puppet, Herbert Herpels, and his puppet show that highlights the quiet moments of life. He accidentally joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter h...

Directed By: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney

Written By: Meghan Doherty, Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney

  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Sylvio

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary It's the story of a small town gorilla, Sylvio, who is stuck in his job at a debt collection agency. Deep down he just wants to express himself with his hand puppet, Herbert Herpels, and his puppet show that highlights the quiet moments of life. He accidentally joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter h...

Directed By: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney

Written By: Meghan Doherty, Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Oct 12, 2017
The directors, Kentucker Audley (who co-stars as a talk-show host) and Albert Birney, embrace both sides of Sylvio’s temperament, realizing his frenzied outbursts (including a vehicular-chase scene) as imaginatively and as delicately as his self-doubt.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
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Nov 29, 2017
Vine fad “Simply Sylvio” and its film adaptation — more plainly titled Sylvio — by directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley offer a tense amalgamation of lowbrow sensibilities and highbrow execution, which the anthropomorphic gorilla then beats into submission.
By Jason Ooi FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 12, 2017
The plight of the alienated monkey is at turns absurd and genuinely bittersweet, not to mention a whole lot better than its premise might suggest.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 12, 2017
Even when their bananas premise grows a bit stale, the directors prove at least semi-serious about their material’s rawer emotions, thereby making the film an uncanny character study about an alienated anthropomorphic primate who yearns to be himself.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 12, 2017
One thing's for certain: Not even Charles Darwin could fully figure this monkey out.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 12, 2017
Birney and Audley have an impressive visual sense — the smart framing and thrifty, ingenious production design (by Peter Davis) at times suggest a Wes Anderson–directed installment of Between Two Ferns — and also the good sense to lean on Birney’s nuanced physical performance.
By Danny King FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 10, 2017
Sylvio's banal depictions of everyday loneliness through the diurnal tedium of an anthropomorphic animal brings to mind BoJack Horseman, but without the caustic navel-gazing and self-destruction or the mordant pop-culture musings.
By Greg Cwik FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Dogfish Pictures, Privateer Entertainment, Salem Street Entertainment, UnLTD Productions
Release Date Oct 13, 2017
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Americana Film Fest
• 1 Nomination
Eastern Oregon Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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