Pumpkin

Theatrical Release Date: 2002 06 28 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 027616880581

Studio: MGM

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Profanity, Sexual Situations]

Summary: Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are put off by the activity. Carolyn's discomfort begins to dissipate after meeting Pumpkin Romanoff (Hank Harris), a young man in a wheelchair who has dreams of competing in the shot put. Slowly, Carolyn falls in love with Pumpkin, sending her into conflict with her boyfriend Kent (Sam Ball), her sisters, and Pumpkin's mother (Brenda Blethyn). This film was screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: ccOriginal Theatrical Trailer
English 5.1 Surround
English, French and Spanish language subtitles

Pumpkin

Format: DVD

Release Date: 11/05/2002

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen, 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 117 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 -- Widescreen
1. Main Title/ An Emphatic Yes [4:06]
2. A.O.Pi Imperfections [4:19]
3. Sorority Rivalry [1:57]
4. When Worlds Collide [4:51]
5. Not Herself Anymore [2:59]
6. The Poetry of Ugliness [1:43]
7. "Our Two Blessings" [2:02]
8. Beautiful People Inside [4:02]
9. Nothing Romantic [3:05]
10. Double-Date Disaster [10:05]
11. Ode to Pasadena [1:32]
12. "Like a Broken Mirror" [4:42]
13. Coventry for Carolyn [3:35]
14. Judgmental & Conformist [5:10]
15. "I'm a Man" [2:35]
16. Back to Perfect Normalcy [8:55]
17. The Point of No Return [3:30]
18. "Just a Horrible Phase" [8:56]
19. A Grand Smiling Gesture [5:47]
20. The Queen's First Dance [6:48]
21. Fighting for the Girl [6:44]
22. Crippled, Guilty, Lost [7:19]
23. Pumpkins to Champions [9:02]
24. End Credits [3:48]
Side #2 -- Standard
1. Main Title/ An Emphatic Yes [4:13]
2. A.O.Pi Imperfections [4:19]
3. Sorority Rivalry [1:57]
4. When Worlds Collide [4:51]
5. Not Herself Anymore [2:59]
6. The Poetry of Ugliness [1:43]
7. "Our Two Blessings" [2:02]
8. Beautiful People Inside [4:02]
9. Nothing Romantic [3:05]
10. Double-Date Disaster [10:05]
11. Ode to Pasadena [1:32]
12. "Like a Broken Mirror" [4:42]
13. Coventry for Carolyn [3:35]
14. Judgmental & Conformist [5:10]
15. "I'm a Man" [2:35]
16. Back to Perfect Normalcy [8:55]
17. The Point of No Return [3:30]
18. "Just a Horrible Phase" [8:56]
19. A Grand Smiling Gesture [5:47]
20. The Queen's First Dance [6:48]
21. Fighting for the Girl [6:44]
22. Crippled, Guilty, Lost [7:19]
23. Pumpkins to Champions [9:02]
24. End Credits [3:48]

Derek Armstrong

There may have been no advisable way to market Pumpkin, other than how they did: an outr? assault on good taste in the spirit of the Farrelly Brothers, starring Christina Ricci, the youth queen of sarcasm. After all, who would believe -- or pay to see -- a mostly straightforward look at a privileged college girl falling for her mentally retarded charity case? Black comedy is probably the right category for Pumpkin, but its subversive agenda loses steam midway through, resulting in a more conventional romantic drama using unconventional parts. Still, it offers its characters a fairer shake than they get in most sorority movies full of caricatures and pre-established satirical norms. Tony R. Abrams and Adam Larson Broder have succeeded in more ways than they've failed in their directorial debut, but their earnest attempt to supply stock characters with sympathetic dimension can seem na?ve. Ricci's character is better when obliviously trampling on emotions, as when she sets up a blind date between Pumpkin and an overweight girl in her poetry class, trying to link up their lost souls. Achieving genuine empathy is her destiny, but it deprives Broder's script of some of its prior bite. On the other hand, making fun of all the characters would have been an easier, more certain route, so the rookie filmmakers can't be blamed for taking risks that don't pan out. If Pumpkin is ultimately unconvincing, it's because the subject matter has so much built-in implausibility, not because it was mishandled. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Marissa Parker  Actor 
Elsie Escobar  Actor 
Ginny Schreiber  Actor 
Margaret Travolta  Actor 
John Henry Binder  Actor 
Shaun Weiss  Actor 
Shane Mikael Johnson  Actor 
Amy Adams  Actor 
Julia Vera  Actor 
Marisa Petroro  Actor 
Christina Ricci  Producer 
Francis Ford Coppola  Executive Producer 
Linda Reisman  Executive Producer 
Ron Yerxa  Producer 
Albert Berger  Producer 
John Ottman  Composer (Music Score) 
Willi Baer  Executive Producer 
Karen Barber  Producer 
Tony R. Abrams  Director 
Adam Larson Broder  Director 
Adam Larson Broder  Screenwriter 
Andrew Sperling  Producer 
Christina Ricci  Actor 
Hank Harris  Actor 
Brenda Blethyn  Actor 
Dominique Swain  Actor 
Marisa Coughlan  Actor 
Samuel Ball  Actor 
Harry J. Lennix  Actor 
Nina Foch  Actor 
Caroline Aaron  Actor 
Lisa Banes  Actor 
Julio Oscar Mechoso  Actor 
Phil Reeves  Actor 
Tasha Smith  Actor 
Michael Bacall  Actor 
Erinn Bartlett  Actor 
Michelle Krusiec  Actor 
Melissa McCarthy  Actor 

Country: USA