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Gummo
Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to abrasive outsider cinema, deadpan grotesquerie, and fragmented portraits of people surviving on society’s margins.
- Tone
- bleak, darkly comic, surreal
- Payoff
- unease, amusement
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- episodic
- Themes
- alienation, poverty, damaged community, adolescent aimlessness, moral disconnection
- Setting
- late twentieth century, tornado-damaged small-town suburbia