Starring Christina Ricci and Hank Harris.
Pumpkin is about a sorority girl (Ricci) falling in love with a challenged teenager (Harris) whom she is working with for a charity her sorority signed up for.
The whole film mocks itself. Everything is a joke in and of itself. Pumpkin is a dark comedy that points out the flaws in other films like this, including a car crash/explosion that someone survived, with no burns at all, to become a paraplegic and be more "caring." Ricci sleeps with the boy, and his mother calls her a pedophile and a rapist, pointing out the fact that it's somehow acceptable in the realm of film for an older woman to sleep with an underage boy but not vice versa. That would be 'creepy' and 'over stepping boundaries.' One of her sorority sisters is abrasive the whole first half of the film. Frizzy, hunched shoulders, pushy, awkwardly rude. At some point in the film, she gets a makeover, after which she confesses to have been given some pills to relax her, and she becomes subtle and girly and agreeable like the rest.
Pumpkin was amusing, if not a little weird. I like it well enough. I'd recommend it to one of my sisters and I'd rate it a 4 or 5.
Pumpkin currently holds a 38% critic rating and a 54% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Pumpkin trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvhzaFRYO2w
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265591/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pumpkin/
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