Movie "God Bless America" (2011)

    Movie's ratings

    " Taking out the trash, one jerk at a time."
    Country
    Runtime 1 hr 44 min
    Premiere: World $393 880 May 31, 2012
    USA $122 550
    Other countries $271 330
    Premiere: USA $122 550 April 6, 2012
    theaters 15
    rollout 235 days
    Digital: World July 3, 2012
    Parental Advisory Profanity, Violence & Gore, Frightening & Intense Scenes, ...
    • Profanity

      plenty

    • Violence & Gore

      plenty

    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    Production Companies Darko EntertainmentJerkschool Productions

    Description

    On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old Roxy.

    Сast and Crew

    Release

    God Bless America premiered on September 9, 2011, at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released video on demand on April 6, 2012, and in theatres on May 11, 2012. The DVD and Blu-ray for the film were released on July 3, 2012.

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    Critique: 26

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    Movieline May 10, 2012

    An overly bleak film ready to write off the world and go down in a blaze of gunfire, both middle fingers raised.

    Irish Times August 3, 2012

    Murray and Barr make for winning platonic chemistry even when Frank suspects himself of impure thoughts. Goldthwait holds his nerve as the film shi...

    The Atlantic May 11, 2012

    This is no simple wish-fulfillment revenge fantasy. It’s an indictment of us as viewers and tacit supporters of the cultural trash heap.

    Film.com March 17, 2012

    Sometimes you get the feeling Goldthwait is just making a list of the people he could do without, which is funny and makes you nod your head b...

    NPR May 10, 2012

    Bobcat Goldthwait’s bracing new black comedy…

    Guardian July 5, 2012

    The satire feels hand-me-down and weak, and Goldthwait is firing blanks.

    Semi-comic fantasia of violence against vapid pop culture can’t do justice to its own ideas.

    Los Angeles Times May 11, 2012

    This funny, sick twist of social satire is certainly locked and loaded, even if its aim is sometimes off.

    RogerEbert.com May 10, 2012

    Here is a film that begins with merciless comic savagery and descends into merely merciless savagery. But wow, what an opening.

    ReelViews May 7, 2012

    A lot of what God Bless America has to say is on-target and is presented in such a straightforward, unvarnished fashion that it’s imposs...

    New York Post May 11, 2012

    The real problem is there’s just not enough plot on which to hang the message that mean people suck.

    Arizona Republic May 10, 2012

    Interesting, sometimes kind of fun but, ultimately, not as satisfying as it might have been.

    Shockya.com May 6, 2012

    Sick and twisted, but Frank and Roxy give off such a sense of sincerity and passion, it’s easy to both laugh with them and oddly take th...

    Boston.com May 17, 2012

    It’s about a terminally ill man who decides that if he is going to die, he is going to grab a gun and take a whole bunch of obnoxio...

    Goldthwait shows a knack for pin-pointing the sulphurous hues within the kaleidoscopic rainbow of alienation and frustration, but has sadly fa...

    Star Joel Murray is SO good and Bobcat finds the sharp edge of his satirical gift often enough to warrant a look.

    Austin Chronicle June 1, 2012

    The problem with the film is that it starts at such a lethal pitch there is nowhere believable it can build toward.

    TheWrap May 10, 2012

    This movie’s idea of topical satire is to score points off of My Super Sweet 16 and legendary American Idol reject William Hung. Ti...

    MSN Movies May 8, 2012

    …isn’t as smart as it would like to think it is.

    AV Club May 10, 2012

    Goldthwait’s primary strength as a writer-director has been in starting with outrageous, high-concept hooks that develop into subtler, m...

    Chicago Reader May 9, 2012

    [It] turns in on its own morality like a Mbius strip, endorsing kindness by practicing slaughter, and pulls us along for the ride.

    New York Daily News May 10, 2012

    Given that the movie starts out in such interesting fashion, it’s hugely disappointing to see it devolve so lazily into a generic vigila...

    The Age (Australia) November 15, 2012

    Gory, unfunny satire that deserves a prize for the most strained provocation of the year.

    Slant Magazine May 7, 2012

    By wholeheartedly taking its main characters’s side instead of complicating or censuring his homicidal vigilante crusade, it proves inanely o...

    SFGATE May 10, 2012

    In this "Falling Down" of pop-cultural observation, Goldthwait forgets the thrill of the chase; he’s more concerned with piercing verbal...

    Financial Times July 5, 2012

    The new film’s fire-power is too sloppy, too wide-spread; it barely scathes even the easy target of an American television talent show comple...

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