Synopsis
In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.
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Cast
- Johnny KnoxvilleDaltry Calhoun
- Elizabeth BanksMay
- Juliette LewisFlora
- David KoechnerDoyle Earl
- Kick GurryFrankie
- Lawrence Bull Jr.Repo Man #2
- Beth GrantCiotka Dee
- Thomas Jackson BurtFarmer
- Ken JacksonCharlie
- Sophie TraubJune
Recommendations
- 50
TV Guide Magazine
The soundtrack, which ranges from Johnny Cash to Serge Gainsbourg to the Wu-Tang Clan, is admirably eclectic but can't be said to pull things together. - 50
New York Post
Seriously flawed - and choppily edited in the worst Harvey Scissorhands style - but there are enough good moments to anticipate a second film from writer-director Katrina Holden Bronson, whose parents were Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Aims for whimsy and poignancy and mostly comes up empty. - 40
Variety
A string of scenes in search of a movie. - 40
Village Voice
Daltry Calhoun (Johnny Knoxville) urges you to "get high on grass--the legal kind." But to find anything funny in director Katrina Holden Bronson's debut, you're going to want the illegal kind. - 40
The New York Times
Although the film starts off somewhat amusingly, the first-time feature director Katrina Holden Bronson (who also wrote the unbalanced script) seems to have spent more energy assembling the overbearing soundtrack than expanding on her characters' fractured relationships. - 30
L.A. Weekly
Traub does her plucky best, coming off as part Judy Blume heroine, part post-WB hipster, and she provides the film with its few and infrequent moments of emotional truth. - 30
Los Angeles Times
In the parlance of "The Player," Katrina Holden Bronson's Daltry Calhoun would be pitched as "Because of Winn-Dixie" meets "Napoleon Dynamite," and that is definitely not a good thing.
