Dark Horse

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Dark Horse

2012

1h 25m

Drama

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An odd romance blooms between a chronic underachiever (Jordan Gelber) and a depressed woman (Selma Blair) who has still not recovered from a previous failed relationship.

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Typically misanthropic yet curiously satisfying and incisive, Dark Horse is a movie that preaches to the cynical converted.

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J. Hoberman

Tablet

05/03/2016

An exercise in compassionate misanthropy.

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Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

08/17/2012

2/4

It would be unfair and patronizing to say that Solondz needs to grow up, but "Dark Horse" suggests that it's time for the bard of bourgeois hypocrisy to consider moving on.

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

08/09/2012

1.5/4

Solondz has made a career out of specializing in highly aberrant views of middle-class life.

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

07/14/2021

This movie feels like a culmination of sorts - it spins right off into extended fantasy for long periods of time, allowing us right inside the sordid funny and downright depressing fantasy life of Abe, king of the losers

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

06/27/2019

3.5/5

While this may not be Solondz's strongest piece, it may very well fit the bill as a dark horse in his filmography.

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Jo-Ann Titmarsh

CineVue

05/30/2019

3/5

Though Dark Horse offers plenty of laughs, in no way is this a film in the wake of Hollywood man-child comedies... There's no easy resolution to Abe's situation and the audience is not really rooting for him to get the girl and the happy ending.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone Jul 8

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

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Ari V

Jun 29

Not completely hopeless, but seems to lose track—amongst all the avantgarde—of what's actually happening and what it's trying to convey.

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Gareth v

06/19/2023

Really plays up the loveable loser angle but it just falls flat. A few funny moments but a rather ordinary affair.

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JEANNE K

05/02/2023

Possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

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Sean M

04/03/2023

Started off okay, but then got very uninteresting. The film lost me during the last 20 minutes. Basically some stuff happens and then he dies.

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cinephile f

12/06/2022

Wow... what a dark and profound morality tale. This is the final of all Todd Soldonz's films that I have watched (except his very first one) and this was definitely one of my favorites. I found myself really shocked by the writing and acting of the protagonist. It is like the director held a mirror to our current culture to show what we are like. Recommend!

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Synopsis

An odd romance blooms between a chronic underachiever (Jordan Gelber) and a depressed woman (Selma Blair) who has still not recovered from a previous failed relationship.

Director: Todd Solondz
Producer: Ted Hope, Derrick Tseng
Screenwriter: Todd Solondz
Distributor: Brainstorm Media
Production Co: Double Hope Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 8, 2012, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 13, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.0M
Runtime: 1h 25m

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