Synopsis
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Jennifer GarnerLaura Pickler
- Yara ShahidiDestiny
- Hugh JackmanBoyd Bolton
- Ty BurrellBob Pickler
- Olivia WildeBrooke Swinkowski
- Alicia SilverstoneJulie Emmet
- Rob CorddryEthan Emmet
- Ashley GreeneKaitlen Pickler
- Pruitt Taylor VinceNed Eaten
- Kristen SchaalCarol-Ann Stevenson
Recommandations
- 70
Boxoffice Magazine
With a razor-sharp script and Jennifer Garner winning laughs in a nice change-of-pace role, this cynically funny and pointedly pertinent not-so-subtle spin on the national battle between right and left wing politics scores lots of comic bullseyes. - 60
The Guardian
There's something about this film's churn of goo and grit that lingers ambivalently, difficult to digest. - 50
Observer
The film was shot in Louisiana, which looks nothing like Iowa. Nobody along the way seems to have a care in the world about cholesterol. And it's the first movie in history that makes Hugh Jackman look repulsive. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Garner hasn't come across as amusing as she is here in quite some time. Despite many funny bits, Butter also, at times, seems to excoriate the blinkered Midwesterners in the flyover states. - 50
Slant Magazine
It's the film's unwillingness to deal with the sometimes hilarious and often problematic things its characters say and do that stands as one of its ultimate failings. - 50
Arizona Republic
Butter is funny in spots, but it's so preoccupied with landing below-the-belt cultural jabs that it misses the opportunity for laying out biting social commentary. - 40
Time Out
If its juxtaposition of bad behavior and dairy products leaves you stone-faced or wearily sighing, you should exit the theater posthaste. - 40
New York Daily News
Appropriately enough for a movie built on two-dimensional cartoons of amoral adults and innocent children, Shahidi is the only actor who emerges with her dignity fully intact.
