Synopsis
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
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Cast
- Paul DanoHank
- Daniel RadcliffeManny
- Mary Elizabeth WinsteadSarah
- Antonia RiberoCrissie
- Timothy EulichPreston
- Richard GrossHank's Dad
- Marika CasteelReporter
- Andy HullCameraman
- Aaron MarshallOfficer #1
- Shane CarruthCoroner
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
This is pop art by way of lowbrow slapstick, with a premise that suggests "Cast Away" meets "Weekend at Bernie's," but really feels like a lunatic's idea of a big, broad studio comedy — or maybe a mad scientist's. - 75
Consequence
Frenzied, kinetic filmmaking is hit or miss, but The Daniels are showcasing their talents as opposed to showing off. - 75
Slant Magazine
Even as it invites snarky ridicule, the film dares you to buy into its singular earnestness. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It’s entirely to the directors and the two lead actors’ credit that what sounds like a bunch of overextended body humor gags of the most juvenile variety evolve, by sheer repetitious attrition, into something bizarrely poetic and strangely touching. - 70
Variety
At times deliriously dynamic, at others patience-grating in the extreme, the constantly inventive film fires off ideas that are as exhilarating as anything American audiences will see all year, only to lag in long swells on either side. - 60
The Guardian
It’s coarse and it’s stupid, but it is, thanks mostly the two good performances and some stylish use of music and editing, a little bit moving. - 60
Screen Daily
Swiss Army Man is a powerfully audacious and wilfully odd odyssey that is too nervy and strangely emotional to dismiss outright but, ultimately, isn’t satisfying enough to provoke a full-throated defence, either. - 58
The Film Stage
Swiss Army Man is an exceptionally unusual, one-of-a-kind achievement, worthy to seek out for that factor alone. However, if as much time was spent on refining the script as was the world-building, this could have been a magical realism fever dream like few others.
