Greener Grass

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Greener Grass

2019

1h 42m

Comedy

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Soccer moms Jill and Lisa compete for approval and acceptance in a bizarre suburbia while their kids battle it out on the playing field.

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Greener Grass is far from the first comedy to skewer suburbia -- but it might be among the most bizarre and surreally distinctive.

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Sophie Monks Kaufman

Little White Lies

11/21/2019

3/5

A hypnotic watch, yet hard to pin down.

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Josh Kupecki

Austin Chronicle

10/24/2019

3.5/5

Greener Grass feels sometimes episodic, but it can be an incredibly entertaining romp through the picket fence yards of an America that only exists in our collective unconscious.

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Nick Schager

The Daily Beast

10/21/2019

The warped and idiosyncratic passions, animosities, materialistic desires, mating habits, and social dynamics of suburbia (where everyone only drives golf carts) are on full display in Greener Grass...

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Joonatan Itkonen

Region Free

07/18/2024

4/5

It’s disarmingly sweet, and that makes it scary. The jokes are as innocuous as possible. The terror lies in the straight-faced approach... There’s a Lynchian vibe that permeates the air.

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Brittany Patrice Witherspoon

Pop Culture Reviews

07/14/2024

4.5/5

This hilarious stroll onto the other side demonstrates the downside of excessive civility and welcomes the extravagantly silly side of district mania. And it’s nothing short of hysterical.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/21/2022

4/5

I laughed a lot following these shallow, dim-witted rivals amid a sea of suburban superficiality.

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KAREN G

11/03/2019

There are no words. This was the dumbest movie, the biggest waste of time and the biggest waste of money. Period.

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Alex D

@Alexd95 Jan 10

My partner and I have been quoting this movie for literally 6 years, brilliant watch! "you've clearly had a blow out jill, it looks good"

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mori m

@RT83040028 Jun 1

Amazing film. Do not let the low stars rating scare you off. It is not for everyone, but if you are an artsy, theory loving, deep analysis type of person, this is such a fantastic film. It's more art project than movie which I'm obsessed with. I recommend this to everyone I can. It's such an interesting commentary too. It truly is "the girls who get it, get it, and the ones that don't, don't." type of media, and by god do I get it! I've never seen anything like this and I don't think I ever will again. Genuine masterpiece of art.

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Therealwhitehousetrash T

@RT99867867 03/07/2025

Greener Grass, you had me at, "YOU'RE a school!", and, as we all know, if anyone's a school... it's Julian.

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Chris A

@RT00487216 12/21/2024

Should've been a short film. Humor was great at times but mostly hard to sit through for the length of time.

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Rye R

@RT34521355 11/23/2024

This is the kind of comedy I hope we aren't destined for as a society. Greener Grass was so strikingly unfunny and almost pretentious in its attempt to be funny that I have to question every critic and viewer who gave it a positive review. I only half chuckled at one brief scene, but beyond that I struggled watching it and I'll never watch another film by the writers and producers who created it. I wish I had the time back I wasted watching it.

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Synopsis

Soccer moms Jill and Lisa compete for approval and acceptance in a bizarre suburbia while their kids battle it out on the playing field.

Director: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Producer: Natalie Metzger
Screenwriter: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Production Co: Vanishing Angle, Gulp Splash Productions
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 18, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 19, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $40.3K
Runtime: 1h 42m

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