Gentlemen Broncos

2009 "Oinus, Ainous, Anous, Odious."
6.1| 1h29m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 30 September 2009 Released
Producted By: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.gentlemenbroncos.com/
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A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

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Jared Hess

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Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?
BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
SnoopyStyle Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a quiet awkward teen home-schooled by his mother (Jennifer Coolidge). He has written a sci-fi fantasy novella about Bronco (Sam Rockwell) based on his father. He's befriended by Tabatha Jenkins (Halley Feiffer) and Lonnie Donaho (Héctor Jiménez). Tabatha is the first person to read his book and she loves it. He goes to writing camp Cletus Fair where he meets his idol Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement). Ronald is rather pompous and needs a new book before his publisher drops him. Ronald steals Benjamin's book. Unbeknownst to Ronald, Lonnie buys the rights to Benjamin's book and makes an indie. Ronald claims that Benjamin is the thief.I like these characters to a certain extent. Weird characters have become a trademark of the Hesses but I always struggle to actually laugh in their movies. This one comes close. I like Angarano who gets better along the way. Tabatha's first scene isn't good because she's kind of callous and oblivious to Benjamin's feelings. Also the Bronco scenes could have tied in with Benjamin and his struggles more. It's a missed opportunity. If Sam Rockwell is suppose to be his father, there is no reason why Jennifer Coolidge could not be the heroine in those scenes. Jemaine Clement could play a villain of the book. The whole book could be a parallel world. I still like Benjamin but almost none of it made me laugh. Tabatha aggressively kissing him after he throws up is a fun scene. That comes closest to being funny.
thesar-2 This film is a crime. And EVERY SINGLE ONE of those involved in the production should be arrested as accessories for not even attempting to halt production from day one.This absolute train wreck, this abomination, will make you question that other list of movies you've seen and said "That was the worst movie I've ever seen!" You ain't seen nothing until you've seen Gentlemen Broncos.The movie is painful, sad and disgusting – and I'm not even referring to the obvious efforts to gross us out, like kissing and swallowing someone else's puke. What makes this movie stand out from other disasters, like The Room, was the fact it was, unbelievably, competently shot. These buffoons should've known better.And ironically, the dreadful movie/book/fantasies within this movie, which keep getting praised by the characters are not as bad as the actual movie as a whole. Oh, sure, the "Yeast Infection" book the film revolves around and its (100-feet below any of the MST3k short's standards) fantasy shots are obviously inept and enormously miss the comedic mark, and still…they're a welcome distraction for the terrifying sight of the rest of the film.From the appalling dialogue to the endless misfires they want you to believe is comedy to the absolutely repulsive secondary characters – what was with Large-Mouthed Lonnie? I'd rather stare at feces longer – this movie had utterly nothing going for it. The slight and only bright spot was actor Michael Angarano. He screamed BETTER than this, but sadly, he couldn't elevate one speck of this catastrophe.The plot's all over the place, but suffice to say: Teenager writes a horrendous and yet "highly praised" story that appeared to be written by someone 10-15 years younger, and one failing famous writer steals it, while Large-Mouth butchers it for a cheap production. The poster's tagline is "From the director of…Napoleon Dynamite" and from the looks of it, this story could have, in fact, come from the mind of that Napoleon character, albeit on his worst day of creativity.Oh, there's a more… sadly a lot more going on including 1/100th the production value of the worst of the Star Trek episodes from the 1960s, but nothing that equates a SEE IT because of that character or that scene. Even the great music was out of place – and Cher, you should be ashamed of yourself!On a side note, karma really sucks. I must really have p*ssed off my friend – you know who you are! – who "recommended" this to me. I'm inches from purchasing a plane ticket for two states over, taking a taxi to his residence and upon him answering the door – he'll get a slap across the face. That's it. No words. Following the deserved attack, I'll just turn around and head back to the airport.
Roland E. Zwick "Gentlemen Broncos" is so off-the-charts weird at times that you often can't tell whether it's breaking new ground as a brilliantly original and creative work - or just trying too hard.Michael Angarano ("Forbidden Kingdom") plays Benjamin Pervis, a friendless teen who lives with his penniless mom in a geodesic-domed house in rural Utah. Ben is a writer of sci-fi fantasy fiction who has one of his stories stolen by Ronald Chevalier (the delightful Jemaine Clement), a world-famous author with a James Mason voice. Ben also runs into a couple of bizarre indie-film makers who want to make the same story Chevalier stole from him (entitled "Yeast Lords" from the series "Gentlemen Broncos") into one of their shoestring-budget productions.It's hard to know whether writers Jared and Jerusha Hess (Jared also directed the film) have any real affection for their characters and the world they inhabit or whether they view them merely as objects of out-and-out mockery and ridicule. In fact, the characters, with their mouth-breathing, slack-jawed expressions and atonal line readings, achieve near-freak show status at times. It's this air of condescension, rather than the tale itself, that sometimes makes it hard for us to laugh at what's happening on screen.Despite this discomfort, however, there is still much to admire in the work. The movie has fun parodying both the unscrupulous nature of the publishing business and the accoutrements of low-budget filmmaking. Clement is marvelously deadpan as the sci-fi penner whose writer's-block forces him to scrap all traces of authorial integrity in pursuit of the almighty buck. And Angarano creates in Benjamin a character we can actually care about and root for. The enactments of scenes from Benjamin's novels are appropriately hokey and cheesy, and the movie also makes astute musical choices, particularly Zager and Evans' 1969 hit "In the Year 2525," which effectively book-ends the story.
Sean Lamberger When Benjamin (an aspiring young science fiction author) attends a writers' workshop, his latest work is quickly lifted and re-imagined by two of his fellow campers. One, an obnoxious small-scale filmmaker, does so with the creator's blessing while the other, an established novelist, claims the work as his own. Written and directed by Jared Hess, also responsible for Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, this eccentric comedy lands somewhere in between the hypnotic success of the former and the disappointing shortfalls of the latter. The opening act is a real riot, with quirky, colorful characters stepping out of the wallpaper and amazing over- the-top visualizations of Benjamin's work that treat his hokey material with unmasked deference. But while those big screen interpretations of his hilariously awful novel bring the goods throughout the film (with competing visions from the two other writers' interpretations raising the bar) the primary storyline doesn't keep pace. The awkward, passionately inept cast doesn't quite have the charms of Napoleon or Pedro, (with the exception of Jermaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords, who's outstanding as selfish sci-fi plagiarist Ronald Chevalier) and there's a notable lack of a top-of-the-mountain moment that was so present in Dynamite's dance scene. It's a spiritual successor that had potential, but never completely rises to the moment.