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Gummo

Gummo

Drama · Comedy · 1997

Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

Movie details

Gummo

“Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.”

1997 Drama · Comedy 1h 29m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.6 / 10

41.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

39 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

19 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.6 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Gummo?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Harmony Korine

Written by

Harmony Korine

Jacob Reynolds

Jacob Reynolds

Solomon

Jacob Sewell

Jacob Sewell

Bunny Boy

Nick Sutton

Nick Sutton

Tummler

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny

Dot

D

Darby Dougherty

Darby

Carisa Glucksman

Carisa Glucksman

Helen

L

Lara Tosh

Girl in Car

Court is in session

Put Gummo on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.