God Bless America

R

Released May 11, 2012

1 hr. 47 min.

Comedy

List

66%

114 Reviews

Tomatometer

68%

25,000+ Ratings

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Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo (Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr) team up to whack reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant.

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Critics Consensus

A darkly comic polemic on modern culture, God Bless America is uneven and somewhat this but the ideas behind this revenge fulfillment journey has primal appeal.

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Jeffrey P

A dark comedy, in the fullest sense of the term, that pulls no punches and really pushes the limits. From the opening scene you'll know if it has the edge you need or if it's just too much. Some of the diatribes and social commentary are borderline great and second to none... because most films won't go as far as this did. God bless America, indeed, the only country something like this can be made and distributed to the public.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/25/24

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cameron c

I kinda enjoyed the movie in 2011, but damn, this really didn't age well. It's still well acted and everything, but I don't think you can feel any satisfaction watching the main character shoot up a cinema in 2023.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

12/07/23

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Lying I

One of those guilty pleasure movies. All of us once in a while get cynical and want to just kill someone but would never do it. In this movie, you can watch others do it against a cliched comedic backdrop. No serious messages in this film, nothing to learn, just a fun (but dark and bloody) movie with great acting and chemistry between an unconventional and unlikely duo.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/26/23

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Yuri B

This movie was wild. Even I couldn't believe how much ish went down. Those two went on a bloody damn rampage.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

It's an awful premise, and I laughed through all of it! The acting is great, the jokes are hilarious and dark, and the characters are well developed for such an absurd movie. It is a very dark movie and has some very odd/weird (bordering on gross) character dynamics and story lines but the fact that it sticks to the dark theme through out the movie and never breaks character makes it well worth the watch. It may not be for the faint of heart but for those that love dark and sarcastic comedy that parodies the absurdities of our society there is no better movie to watch than this.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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corkball

Points for an interesting premise - man with inoperable brain tumor decides to go out in a blaze of glory by killing people who are obnoxious. Meets a teenage girl and they become a Bonnie & Clyde killing team. Amazingly not as dark as you would think. Couple of issues.... Murray has always been a supporting character - he doesn't strike me as a leading man. He gives a couple of cringy speeches as to why he is mad as hell and not gonna take it - this has been done MUCH better in other movies. Barr is supposed to be a teen, but she comes off as a 29 year old Che Guevara. There is some insightful and funny dialogue, but there is also some awful dialogue, and when you are making a movie like this, better to take your politics off the table.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Bobcat Goldthwait

Director

Joel Murray

Frank

Tara Lynne Barr

Roxy

Melinda Page Hamilton

Alison

Mackenzie Brooke Smith

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Rich McDonald

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

If you can take that premise, I think you'll go along with the film and it's really, in its very weird way, quite funny.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 15, 2012

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

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

Rated: 1.5/5

Nov 15, 2012

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Murray and Barr make for winning platonic chemistry even when Frank suspects himself of impure thoughts. Goldthwait holds his nerve as the film shifts from ennui to malevolent gleefulness.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 3, 2012

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

God Bless America cries out for a change in a funny, shocking, unflinching manner and probes the depths of what it means to be a black comedy.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 17, 2022

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Jordan M. Smith

IONCINEMA.com

For many of us, this garbage is getting old, and with God Bless America, Goldthwait has allowed us a cathartic outpouring of violence that offers a brief stopgap for our current sensory oppression.

Nov 19, 2020

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Ed Travis

Hollywood Jesus

What fundamentally didn't work for me was that all of the wit, humorous rants, and social commentary felt like they were aimed squarely at pop culture.

Mar 31, 2020

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Synopsis

Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo (Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr) team up to whack reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant.

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Executive Producer: Edward H. Hamm Jr.
Screenwriter: Bobcat Goldthwait
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Darko Entertainment
Rating: R (Some Sexual Sequences|Language|Strong Violence)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 11, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $122.0K

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