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A law school dropout 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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Neil Genzlinger New York Times 06/07/2013
3/5
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. Go to Full Review
R. Kurt Osenlund Slant Magazine 06/06/2013
1/4
An angry indie that favors hollow ridicule over credibility. Go to Full Review
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News 06/06/2013
3/5
Weixler is a delight, and director Tom Gammill captures the right level of deadpan to pull this off. Go to Full Review
Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens 11/27/2019
You gotta sample Free Samples! It's delicious, quirky goodness. Go to Full Review
Neely Swanson Easy Reader (California) 09/18/2017
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. Go to Full Review
Ethan Alter Television Without Pity 06/07/2013
A modest pleasure that greatly benefits from Weixler's charismatic presence. Go to Full Review
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George H 12/12/2024 This movie is actually really good. Not a CGI blockbuster but a down to earth example of character driven storyline interesting people and a good ending See more 01/31/2022 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 See more 01/30/2022 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. See more 09/18/2021 These indie/comedies are low key my favorite type of movies 3.6 See more 12/27/2015 Funny and quirky and rough in spots, just like an indie movie should be. See more walter m @Harlequin68 08/05/2015 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. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A law school dropout 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
Producer
Jim Beggarly, Jay Gammill, Cory Knauf, Eben Kostbar
Screenwriter
Jim Beggarly
Production Co
Film Harvest
Rating
R (Brief Language)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 8, 2017
Runtime
1h 20m
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