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  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary Jimmy loves dinosaurs and sleeps on the top bunk. Unfortunately, Jimmy is 40 and shares that bunk with his 10-year-old nephew. Freshly divorced, Jimmy lives with his sister Aiko and her family while boldly searching for a new wife. And although Jimmy may lack social grace, he is convinced the best years of his life are just beginning. H...

Directed By: Dave Boyle

Written By: Joel Clark, Dave Boyle

  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 23 m

White on Rice

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Jimmy loves dinosaurs and sleeps on the top bunk. Unfortunately, Jimmy is 40 and shares that bunk with his 10-year-old nephew. Freshly divorced, Jimmy lives with his sister Aiko and her family while boldly searching for a new wife. And although Jimmy may lack social grace, he is convinced the best years of his life are just beginning. H...

Directed By: Dave Boyle

Written By: Joel Clark, Dave Boyle

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
45
14% Positive
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86% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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86% Mixed
6 Reviews
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75
Will wring some laughs out of anyone but the most humor-impaired.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
60
Its tone is pleasant and its humor, charming.
By Sara Schieron FULL REVIEW
50
Its amusingly off-kilter humor underserved by pedestrian packaging, Dave Boyle's sophomore feature, White on Rice, is the kind of comedy that hinges on a protagonist near-imbecilic in all matters social, physical and especially romantic.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
At its best, this uneven film by writer-director Dave Boyle suggests that going a bit nuts is a good thing for the rigid paterfamilias.
By Chuck Wilson FULL REVIEW
40
Bland and only occasionally funny.
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40
Granted, Boyle may be a competent director, but he’s missed the mark by not focusing on anybody with real heart: the father and his son, the cousin and her beau--basically, every person here who isn’t a cretinous, developmentally arrested creep.
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It's revealing that writer-director Dave Boyle has said that in a way he fulfilled his lifelong ambition to be a cartoonist with the live-action White on Rice because his people in this wan, trite and increasingly silly comedy are little more than stick figures.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Brainwave, Malatova Productions, Tiger Industry Films
Release Date Sep 11, 2009
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating PG-13
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Website http://www.whiteonricethemovie.com/
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Awards

VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
San Diego Asian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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