Synopsis
A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.
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Cast
- Thomas F. DuffyXavier
- David BoweM. Hughes
- Stephen SpinellaChad
- Roxane MesquidaSheila
- Jack PlotnickAccountant
- Wings HauserMan in wheelchair
- Ethan CohnFilm buff Ethan
- Charley KoontzFilm buff Charley
- Daniel QuinnDad
- Devin BrochuSon
Recommendations
- 100
Village Voice
An essay on storytelling and spectatorship within When Inanimate Objects Attack schlock - one infused with the haunting aura and disillusionment of a post–"Easy Rider" road movie - Rubber is some kind of miracle. - 83
IndieWire
Dupieux's utterly zany slice of narrative subversion transcends that singularly goofy premise to create one of the more bizarre experiments with genre in quite some time. - 80
The New York Times
While it can be seen as an environmental horror movie (if you must), Rubber doesn't dig down but instead merrily rolls on, as Mr. Dupieux plays with narrative and form. In one wonderful cinematic coup the tire spots a crow and shifts toward the bird so that it's framed in the tire hole, an angle that turns the tire into a camera. Point. Click. Explode. - 67
Austin Chronicle
It is, in effect, a movie-house meta mirror, warped and weird, strange but true (except when it isn't). It's whatever you want it to be, which doesn't necessarily make it a great movie (although it contains moments of greatness), but it IS – by virtue of its premise alone – boldly unique. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Where Rubber veers off the road is that for all its giggly moments and meta-whatever, it's never quite funny enough or scary enough. - 50
The A.V. Club
While it's admirably perverse for a "killer-tire movie" to be this snooty, it's about half as clever as it thinks it is. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
With a homicidal tire as the main character, the film isn't scary enough to qualify as horror and not nearly as amusing as a black comedy should be. - 40
Variety
Neither scary, funny, nor anywhere near as clever as it seems to think it is, picture offers audiences few reasons to want to see it beyond its one-joke premise.
