The Death of Dick Long

Name: The Death of Dick Long
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Released: September 27, 2019
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Andre Hyland, Christopher Campbell, Daniel Scheinert, Ian J. Cunningham, Jamie O Bell

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A24 | Release Date: September 27, 2019 | R

Starring: Andre Hyland, Christopher Campbell, Daniel Scheinert, Ian J. Cunningham, Jamie O Bell, Janelle Cochrane, Jess Weixler, Michael Abbott Jr., Poppy Cunningham, Roy Wood Jr., Sarah Baker, Sunita Mani, Virginia Newcomb

Summary: Holy Crap. Dick is dead. Died last night after band practice, and his bandmates, Zeke & Earl (Michael Abbott, Jr. & Andre Hyland), don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, ‘cause news travels fast in small town Alabama, and these guys suck at covering their tracks. The authorities haven’t ID’d the body just yet, but Zeke’sHoly Crap. Dick is dead. Died last night after band practice, and his bandmates, Zeke & Earl (Michael Abbott, Jr. & Andre Hyland), don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, ‘cause news travels fast in small town Alabama, and these guys suck at covering their tracks. The authorities haven’t ID’d the body just yet, but Zeke’s wife (Virginia Newcomb) and his daughter are suspicious already. [A24]… Expand

Director: Daniel Scheinert

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Vince Mancini

Sep 26, 2019

The Death Of Dick Long is a fantastic movie but also a wonderful lesson in storytelling. Every person believes deep down that they’re the hero of their own story. Treating them that way, as people and not punchlines, paradoxically makes for much better punchlines. Read full review

The Playlist Jordan Ruimy

Feb 1, 2019

There are no dull moments in this ridiculously brutal, often severely dumb, but enjoyable, film Read full review

Justin Chang

Sep 26, 2019

You brace yourself for a numbing catalog of stupidity — the title isn’t exactly encouraging — and are instead greeted by amusement, suspense and a curious aftertaste of sweetness and melancholy. You might even call it grace. Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Raup

Feb 1, 2019

It may end up playing as a silly lark, but along with dismantling ideas of masculinity, Daniel Scheinert has also created a singularly entertaining crime comedy built on utter idiocy. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 26, 2019

The Death of Dick Long may be a made-up story, but inside this crisis management suspense-comedy is a weirdly down-to-earth humanity about the ripple effects of out-of-nowhere recklessness. Read full review

Oliver Jones

Sep 27, 2019

What it lacks in textual depth, it makes up for with the genuine sympathy it evinces for characters that most films would dismiss as stupid, depraved and undeserving of our empathy and concern. Like Freud, Scheinert seems to understand that even people who commit unspeakable acts deserve our understanding. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Sep 25, 2019

To be sure, The Death of Dick Long is a weird one, in that it starts out intense and gradually loses steam, until nothing really matters and the audience might as well leave. This movie could be used in film schools to teach how not to structure a story. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Mar 17, 2020

I wasn't expecting that twist, I'll give 'em that.

The performances are bad but the story works because this maybe not be a bizarre journey but certainly an unexpected one.

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Deanomite

Feb 9, 2020

I don't enjoy feeling superior to idiots being idiots, even redneck idiots. To me, it's funnier when something bad happens following a logical attempt at doing something that made sense at the time. The actors in this movie are surely far more refined than the characters they play. ToI don't enjoy feeling superior to idiots being idiots, even redneck idiots. To me, it's funnier when something bad happens following a logical attempt at doing something that made sense at the time. The actors in this movie are surely far more refined than the characters they play. To each their own.… Expand

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MarvelFan2019

Aug 20, 2021

Wow. This is a Darwin Award contestant winner in movie form. Poor man's modern day Idiocracy?

Bestiality. Drugs. Dumb, drunk, fat cops. Dumb hillbillies, their wives, & kids. Can we label fly-over country citizenry any better? The only things they got wrong where full sets of teeth, noWow. This is a Darwin Award contestant winner in movie form. Poor man's modern day Idiocracy?

Bestiality. Drugs. Dumb, drunk, fat cops. Dumb hillbillies, their wives, & kids. Can we label fly-over country citizenry any better? The only things they got wrong where full sets of teeth, no family members married having deformed kids, & misogynistic county sheriffs..

Too bad those in Hollywood don't know any real people from the places they love to make fun of. The people who are just normal humans, living life with morals. Pretty strange to them I guess.… Expand

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