Free Samples

R

2012

1 hr. 20 min.

Comedy

Drama

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63%

8 Reviews

Tomatometer

37%

250+ Ratings

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A hung-over law school dropout (Jess Weixler) spends her day doling out free samples of ice cream and attitude while being wooed by the previous night's hook-up.

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Absolutely nothing of any viewer interest happened in this movie. It's one of those movies you could start watching at any point and not have missed anything. Boring boring boring

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/22

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This is a (semi) modern Clerks-style cameo exploration of Love, Life and finding your Self under a splash of realization that how we see ourselves has a lot to do with caring about others and finding the Right One to help ourselves move forward together ... watch it without expectation and I suspect you'll be delighted.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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These indie/comedies are low key my favorite type of movies 3.6

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/18/21

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Funny and quirky and rough in spots, just like an indie movie should be.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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walter m

After leaving law school, Jillian(Jess Weixler) spends most of her time hanging out with her friends back in her hometown. Waking up one morning after a night of drinking and socializing, she finds an empty cowboy hat in the bed next to her. Making matters even worse is her friend Nancy(Halley Feiffer) drafting her to hand out free samples from her ice cream truck all day. "Free Samples" does itself no favors by starting with the very disturbing sight of Jesse Eisenberg wearing a cowboy hat. Even if it was not slapdash and episodic, the movie would have had a hard time recovering from that. Plus, the movie is forced in being judgmental in showing what Jillian's life would be like if she does not get her life back together, instead of being relaxed in respecting a character's need for a break. On the plus side, there is a very neat turn from Tippi Hedren but that comes too little, too late.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

How many times can you say BORING? This is very close to sickening boring.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Jay Gammill

Director

Jess Weixler

Jillian

Halley Feiffer

Nancy

Jesse Eisenberg

Tex

Jason Ritter

Wally

Tippi Hedren

Betty

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Neil Genzlinger

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A modest but pleasant small-budget movie with two bits of laziness in the script, but one particularly sweet performance that makes up for them.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 7, 2013

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R. Kurt Osenlund

Slant Magazine

An angry indie that favors hollow ridicule over credibility.

Rated: 1/4

Jun 6, 2013

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

Weixler is a delight, and director Tom Gammill captures the right level of deadpan to pull this off.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 6, 2013

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

You gotta sample Free Samples! It's delicious, quirky goodness.

Nov 27, 2019

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Neely Swanson

Easy Reader (California)

Never pretending to be something that it isn't, this film is slight and satisfying even if it, at times, seems more like a thesis film than the feature that is intended.

Sep 18, 2017

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Ethan Alter

Television Without Pity

A modest pleasure that greatly benefits from Weixler's charismatic presence.

Jun 7, 2013

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Synopsis

A hung-over law school dropout (Jess Weixler) spends her day doling out free samples of ice cream and attitude while being wooed by the previous night's hook-up.

Director: Jay Gammill
Executive Producer: Mark Gould, Kevin Iwashina, Eric Allan Kramer, John Madden
Screenwriter: Jim Beggarly
Production Co: Film Harvest
Rating: R (Brief Language)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 8, 2017

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