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Harry and Max

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Two brothers (Bryce Johnson, Cole Williams) who have musical talent demonstrate an incestuous attraction to each other.
Harry and Max

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Critics Consensus

Despite impressive performances from its leads, Harry and Max is prurient, disturbing, and underdeveloped.

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Scott Tobias AV Club 09/26/2005
Though Williams and Johnson fit comfortably into the European naturalism that's become Mnch's stock in trade, they can't quite wriggle out of his high-concept premise and become plausibly real. Go to Full Review
Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle 04/29/2005
0/4
Seems like the work of a novice, with self-conscious expository passages and emotionally false conversations. Go to Full Review
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times 03/24/2005
4/5
To consider Harry and Max as being about incestuous feelings would be shortchanging it, because the film is really about the evolving nature of love and the need to define it. Go to Full Review
Brad Slager Film Threat 12/06/2005
1.5/5
As disturbing and unsettling as the subject matter is what is truly sad is that the performances of the two leads were impressive and they ended up being wasted by the trash content of the script. Go to Full Review
Rob Blackwelder SPLICEDWire 04/29/2005
2/4
...incest...pedophilia...the film seems to be nothing more than an attempt to affirm a sense of I'm-OK-you're-OK normality for any viewers with such issues in their own lives. Go to Full Review
David Noh Film Journal International 03/24/2005
You watch this prurient would-be porn, treated with kid-glove 'sensitivity,' in a state of disbelief. Go to Full Review
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11/03/2011 Una rara relación entre dos hermanos el morbo lo tiene el que se dice que esta basada en Nick Carter y su hermano Aaron Carter. En definitiva el amor es el amor. See more 12/30/2010 Forgetting the taboo subject matter of the film, overall it seemed like it tried to be more daring that it was actually willing to be. Cole Williams provided a strong performance but the script was just not strong enough. See more 12/02/2009 I feel like this movie was trying too hard to ride on shock value and controversy. Which is a shame because the subject matter does not crop up often, and in cinema, tough subject matter often inspires good directing and writing. Not so with Harry and Max. With utterly average direction, and dialogue writing so false it's laughable, Harry and Max is a desperate parody of a teen romance/drama trying anxiously to tease some meaning out of what is ultimately a story lacking in any real substance. The use of writing on the screen to deal with issues such as the move to New York, or the fact that the camping trip moved from tent to back of car rather than incorporating it into dialogue (I mean: "The next morning (It got cold at night)"? Really?) just was a bad decision. Pure and simple. Not content with not knowing when to use dialogue, the writer also misused it whenever he could. The characters were flat and uninteresting, the supporting characters might as well have not even been there. The treatment of the subject matter was insensitive to gays, insensitive to victims of incest, and more importantly, it was boring. The film was not simply bad, it was pedestrian. The lead actors did their best with a bad film, but I can't help but wonder what it could have been if instead of tripping over itself trying to decide what it actually felt about incest and pedophilia (I seriously couldn't tell), it just dropped the brothers angle and the yoga instructor subplot altogether and told a story about teen idols, gay romance, and ultimately why liking someone isn't good enough, they have to be good for you too. If you want a decent LGBT themed film, this is not it. Harry and Max's failures are compounded by tantalising glimpses at what this film could have been in the hands of a talented director and writing team. All in all, despite casting good-looking, talented leads, nothing could save this utter trainwreck of a film. See more 09/10/2009 Kudos for trying to really break taboos, but director Christopher Munch does the actors no service by bogging them down in a script made up of convoluted motives. This one leaves you hanging, and doesn't earn its ambiguity. See more 06/28/2009 Ehh, could've been better. Subject matter was interesting but there wasn't enough done with it. Oh, and the ending sucked. See more 06/27/2009 Albeit disturbing subject matter, oh wait...not really that disturbing compared to typical hollywood fanfare of killing, murder and mayhem, this film was kinda calm and quiet in it's own way. Yeah some may feel that it's boring but at times boring can be good. However that doesn't mean lack in acting or even bad script. I would wish there is a more deeper emotional charge between the actors and not just talk talk talk...But I still find Bryce Johnson to be soooooo delish! See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Two brothers (Bryce Johnson, Cole Williams) who have musical talent demonstrate an incestuous attraction to each other.
Director
Christopher Munch
Producer
Roni Deitz, Christopher Munch
Screenwriter
Christopher Munch
Distributor
TLA Releasing
Production Co
Antarctic Pictures
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 18, 2005, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Jul 19, 2005
Box Office (Gross USA)
$14.9K
Runtime
1h 13m