Synopsis
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
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Cast
- Michael AngaranoBenjamin
- Sam RockwellBronco / Brutus
- Jemaine ClementRonald Chevalier
- Jennifer CoolidgeJudith
- Halley FeifferTabatha
- Mike WhiteDusty
- Héctor JiménezLonnie Donaho
- Josh PaisTodd Keefe
- Clive RevillCletus
- Suzanne MayVanaya / Venonka
Recommendations
- 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The best part is Jemaine Clement as Benjamin’s grandiose genre hero, Dr. Ronald Chevalier. Even if you love him on "Flight of the Conchords," you’ll be unprepared for his genius--and charisma. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Has little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness. - 40
Variety
Napoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in Gentlemen Broncos, the latest oddball character portrait from one-trick helmer Jared Hess. - 40
Time Out
It’s unfair to blame Hess solely for condescension comedy’s bad aftertaste--he’s not the only perpetrator--but his particular brand is the most graceless. - 33
The A.V. Club
Crammed with so much deliberate tackiness that it borders on exhausting self-parody. - 30
Village Voice
Hess deserves credit, I suppose, for so effectively channeling his inner seven-year-old. Personally, I preferred spending two hours in the company of Spike Jonze's. - 30
The New York Times
Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels.
