Zeroville

R

Released Sep 20, 2019

1 hr. 36 min.

Comedy

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23%

31 Reviews

Tomatometer

38%

Fewer than 50 Verified Ratings

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With two tattoos of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on his shaved head, Vikar rides a bus into Hollywood and soon makes an impression on a beautiful actress -- thus beginning a dreamlike journey through the film business in the 1970s.

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Critics Consensus

Potentially an ironic favorite for cult film fans, Zeroville is a fundamentally misguided -- and descriptively titled -- passion project for its director and star.

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Debra

Boring. Nothing really happened.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

09/30/19

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Satellite S

One word SUCKS… So there making me write more bs about this movie, but really you don't need it.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Tim

Movie is aggressive with its agenda. Some of the aggressiveness paid off while most of it sadly didn't. The cast was great and were believable playing parts they would not normally play.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/19/22

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James Franco evolves his career as frequent director on screening his visualizations inspired by his unique reading list stemmed from his rejuvenated education pursuit, despite better as reading material than a matching adapted film set with "The Disaster Artist" actually being his best work. His latest in "Zeroville" had potential further intrigued by gathering his buddies to take the appreciative conversations towards the cinema in the influentially discussed 60s seriously, which their genuine efforts by a switch been felt with occasional humorous chuckle signifying their irresistible comic, alongside showcasing meaningfulness towards the industrial art. It provides signs of another cult classic to a provoked thought, but what truly faltered the film in decline is the contrived chemistry in additional adjacence to mechanically repetitive line delivery that lost convincing connection amidst ill-conceived, nonsensically lowbrow interferences that seems to reflect a certain belief taught and carried through the film. You can value its appreciative gesture towards Hollywood with playful figures, but the picture gets progressively hazy after the ill-mattered first impression in the beginning. (C+)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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It's Sufficiently Bizarre To Be Mildly Thought Provoking..At Least On An MTV Post-Pop-Punk Level. Otherwise, There Is Just A Bunch Of Cobbled Together Scenes That Develop Into Some Sort Of Story With No Continuity, Which I Gather Is A Nod To The Early Scene & Original Pretense On Continuity Being irrelevant In Many Films..Never Affecting The Overall Outcome. Or In This Case, I Beg To Differ, As It Was All Too Confusing & Bizarre. Required More But Gave Less.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Audience Member

Odd little movie that just seemed to miss the mark for the most part 2.4

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/22

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James Franco

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James Franco

Vikar

Megan Fox

Soledad Paladin

Seth Rogen

Viking Man

Joey King

Zazi

Danny McBride

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Lillian Crawford

Little White Lies

This filth grates all the more because the film is so unbearably smug.

Sep 23, 2019

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Stephen Rodrick

Globe and Mail

To say it is for Franco completists only seems just.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 22, 2019

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Franco embraces the zero in his title, producing a film that starts to feel like a middle finger to both Hollywood and anyone who searches for meaning in it.

Rated: .5/4

Sep 20, 2019

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Hunter Lanier

Film Threat

Vikar is just a weird guy left out to dry on a plotline.

Rated: 4/10

Oct 3, 2019

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Carlos Boyero

El Pais (Spain)

Film that doesn't understand what's ridiculous. [Full Review in Spanish]

Sep 28, 2019

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Jordan Snowden

Pittsburgh City Paper

Perhaps if I had read the book, Zeroville the film would have made more sense.

Sep 27, 2019

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Synopsis

With two tattoos of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on his shaved head, Vikar rides a bus into Hollywood and soon makes an impression on a beautiful actress -- thus beginning a dreamlike journey through the film business in the 1970s.

Director: James Franco
Executive Producer: Scott Reed, Lauren Selig, Ron Singer, Wendy Rutland
Screenwriter: Paul Felten, Ian Olds
Distributor: myCinema
Production Co: RabbitBandini Productions, Universal Studios
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Brief Drug Use|Some Sexual Content/Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 20, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 17, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.0K
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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