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Frownland

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
881
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Frownland (2007)
ComedyDrama

About a door-to-door coupon salesman who eats popcorn & eggs off the folded-out-door of his kitchen oven.About a door-to-door coupon salesman who eats popcorn & eggs off the folded-out-door of his kitchen oven.About a door-to-door coupon salesman who eats popcorn & eggs off the folded-out-door of his kitchen oven.

  • Director
    • Ronald Bronstein
  • Writer
    • Ronald Bronstein
  • Stars
    • Dore Mann
    • Paul Grimstad
    • David Sandholm
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    881
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ronald Bronstein
    • Writer
      • Ronald Bronstein
    • Stars
      • Dore Mann
      • Paul Grimstad
      • David Sandholm
    • 17User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Dore Mann
    Dore Mann
    • Keith
    Paul Grimstad
    • Charles
    David Sandholm
    • Sandy
    Carmine Marino
    • Carmine
    Mary Bronstein
    Mary Bronstein
    • Laura
    • (as Mary Wall)
    Paul Grant
    • Exam-man
    • Director
      • Ronald Bronstein
    • Writer
      • Ronald Bronstein
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    User reviews17

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    7nameismike69

    sigh I'm afraid I'm living this movie

    But I can make a better one about myself... Is this a actor with all his head tics... Pulling his hair touching his face ... Just nervous around people lives with his 78 year mother and crazy sister... Graduated from HS where there was so much pomposity it winds up on Facebook. And it's the same ... No one likes you and you fade from Facebook to a lonely life no one loves you .. I'm not annoying like the character in this film but my life went by too fast I'm in my mid 50's thinking about where I can get Fentanyl Fudge. I feel life serves no purpose half of me wants to be Anti Christ and watch humanity just die and the other half knows it's not going to happen and I will on my own will make that sarafice .. So I'm up to The Who book scene which I have personally owned since 1982 . And still sits on my shelf.. I have a room filled to the brim with music video tapes records CD's computers just crap to fill the nothingness and know it's nothing ... I don't feel anyone loves me or cares... So you do the same you stop caring .. They stop caring or never did... Yeah I can make movie that you just die in the end. As I watch... Get it.
    7julief82

    Strong storyteller on the rise

    Ronald Bronstein wrote and directed this movie. He is one of my favorite screenwriters, best known for his collaborations with the Safdie brothers. Here he tries his hand at directing as well, and while he's not in his finest form, that's okay. You can see the mark of a strong storyteller here, and his work since this one has proved that he learned from this one and just kept getting better.
    6fzyukocfuniucj

    Deeply distinctive, memorable, peculiar, but also repulsive

    I wavered between loving and hating this movie as I watched it. The movie has some good, offbeat humorous moments, but they're a bit few and far between. The main character is a schlub who is virtually completely incapable of effectively communicating with anyone around him. This is a type of character that doesn't generally get any attention in film, so focusing on him is an intriguing idea, but it only half works for me. The movie brings up the question sometimes faced by independent movies focusing on unlikeable individuals: Why would you want to spend nearly two hours with such a person? On the other hand, after it was over, a former roommate said, "Thank you for being SUCH a good roommate!" while another friend commented that he appreciates all his existing friends much more after having seen this movie, because the characters were so screwed-up and annoying. The movie has some funny scenes also focusing on the main character's roommate, who is much more articulate but also a total deadbeat. Perhaps the movie could use some judicious editing from its current form (roughly 109-115 minutes at a screening in NYC in April 2007). Interestingly, the movie doesn't spell out the relationships between various characters -- I suspect perhaps as a way of avoiding "exposition anvils" and keeping things as realistic as possible. I would've liked to learn more about the character of Laura, who remains reticent and mysterious.

    Also, kudos to the movie for redressing the total lack of mucus in modern cinema. There is a decent amount of realistic and well-placed snot in this film. In one case, the snot is totally hilarious and unexpected. Maybe it should have been called "Snotland."
    9pixilatedwunderbar

    A film that challenges you to watch.

    In a year of pretentious muck like "Synecdoche, New York" a film born out of Charlie Kaufman's own self-indulgence, comes a film that is similarly hard to watch but about three times as important. "Frownland" is a labor of love by the crew, the actors and the filmmaker, shot over years by friends. It traces a man who cannot communicate through his thoroughly authentic, REAL Brooklyn world. The people that you see are a step beyond even the stylization of the "mumblecore" movement. They are real people, painfully trapped in their own self-contained neuroses, unwilling to change, unable. The real world to them is their own set of delusions and because this is a film about people who are so profoundly out of touch, it is very difficult to watch. It is 16mm film-making without proper light, money or any of the other factors that would make a film "slick", but its honesty can not be understated, a fact that would cause a room full of people to dismiss it and for Richard Linklater to give it an award as he did at SXSW. This does remind of films like "Naked" or the best of the "mumblecore". It is a film that is not for everyone, but one that challenges you to watch and grows on you the longer you think about it.
    6Jalow547

    Just alright

    This is a film about a few New Yorkers who are struggling in life. It is actually very good at moments, but not great at others. The tone of the film is very uneven and unbalanced, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it feels unintentional here. At first we think maybe this is a comedy but we realize slowly that it is not.

    The acting is actually very good. It feels strange at first until we realize that these are not the kinds of characters we normally see in films. But they exist in real life and here we get a chance too see them on the screen.

    The writer and director of this movie stated that he was influenced by the highly acclaimed film Naked, and it is clearly evident here. In both films the characters speak fluently to each other about philosophy and their opinions on life. I felt like it actually felt more real in this one. It was better done. But it never felt completely real in either film, in my opinion. But maybe that's just because I don't encounter people who talk like that in real life. Maybe they're out there.

    I like the camerawork a lot. The film felt a lot like Slackers at times, but maybe that's just because of the grainy 16mm look and the clothing the characters wore. The characters at times felt like they could have come from the world of that film, but at other times they felt like they belonged more in a John Cassavetes film.

    It feels a bit like a Cassavetes film in several ways, particularly toward the end. The ending is very good and gritty and raw and not your typical Hollywood ending by any stretch. And while I feel like the story itself could have been revised and made better, the story as it was could not have been told any better.

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    • Trivia
      Director Ronald Bronstein and Dore Mann havent't spoken to each other in years as a result of having made Frownland together.
    • Connections
      Features Frankenstein et le Monstre de l'enfer (1974)

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    • Release date
      • September 17, 2008 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site (France)
      • Official site (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 프라운랜드
    • Filming locations
      • Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Frownland
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $16,573
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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