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Pound

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Eighteen dogs in a pound wait to be adopted.

Critics Reviews

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Ed Halter Village Voice Part wacky comedy (with plenty of jailhouse humping), part existential allegory, Pound betrays its stage-play roots with too much actorly grandstanding but is peppered with ecstatic funk-powered freak-outs. Aug 16, 2005 Full Review Sam Blazer Los Angeles Free Press Pound is a masterpiece. It's a trip worth the trip. Jan 14, 2020 Full Review Shane Burridge rec.arts.movies.reviews The dog-human switcheroo isn't as straightforward as it should be Mar 17, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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Shioka O Widely no coherence. Absurdism. No plot, has a style. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member What can I say? Robert Downey, Sr. Makes truly atrocious films. The film quality is terrible, although to be fair I was watching a horrible copy of the film. The writing is garbage, because the script can’t even maintain a coherent thought. Pound had moments when it was trying for something interesting, having humans as stand-ins for dogs, but he can’t stick with anything that makes logical sense for more than 2 minutes before cutting to something chaotic and dumb. The acting is like bad theater, and some of these parts are horribly racist in their presentation. Perhaps all I need to say about the terrible nature of Robert Downey, Sr. is to talk about how he used his 5-year-old son in his first movie appearance. That’s right, Pound marks the first time Robert Downey, Jr. appeared in a feature film, and he walks in to deliver the line “You got hair on your balls?” The rest of the movie is downhill from there. When you see how it’s all cut together it looks worse than an amateur student film. Perhaps if you’re high on whatever drugs RDS was doing at the time and sharing with his toddler (yes, that was confirmed in an interview) this all seems hilarious, but I’d rather be euthanized than watch Pound again. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/26/18 Full Review Audience Member Stagy allegory feels disjointed and unengaging. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member So weird. So disjointed. And yet... strangely enjoyable. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Sort of sensational. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Eighteen dogs in a pound wait to be adopted.
Director
Robert Downey Sr.
Producer
Floyd L. Peterson
Screenwriter
Robert Downey Sr.
Genre
Fantasy
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 32m