Cummings Farm (2009) Reviews

• Don't let the marketing deceive you

  Scroobious2011-03-26

  This is a wonderful movie that was obviously marketed (look at the cover art) to the "American Pie" teenage boy audience. Big mistake. Because they will inevitably be disappointed and they are most likely the majority of votes that have this movie at around a 4.1 rating on IMDb. If the distribution/marketing on this movie had just been honest, or even slightly honest, it would at least have been acknowledged in the indie market. The cover art, title and general feel of the movie will also immediately turn away the exact people that would love this movie. The movie is hilarious, honest and the acting is spot on. The writer of the movie who also plays the sociopath character Todd is stellar and I am amazed, looking at his IMDb page, that he doesn't have multiple projects both writing and acting lined up after making this movie. This movie reminded me of "The Anniversary," while also making me laugh out loud throughout. Awesome. Hope these guys get another shot or this movie gets the recognition it deserves. Hollywood ad men just ruin stuff cause they think everyone outside of LA and NY are retarded.

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• A disturbing "comedy"

  sammikat2009-10-12

  In the tradition of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" and "Shortbus," this film is about 3 heterosexual couples who get together for a partner-swapping evening, at the behest of Ted, a manipulative sociopath, played by the film's writer. Laura Silverman plays his wife, an obviously damaged woman whose dialog mostly consists of banalities. Gordon, a slightly charming alcoholic is played by Jordan Kessler, who also produced the film. He is initially partnered with Aimee-Lynn Chadwick's Rachel, the putative "hot chick" of the movie. Alan (Adam Busch) is the bespectacled intellectual paired up with Yasmine (Yasmine Jackson) despite the torch he carries for Rachel. The characters are by turns lovable & odious and things go desperately wrong when Ted pushes things too far. Even though this film definitely has several laugh-out-loud moments, I don't think it is necessarily a comedy. The sexually explicit dialog highlights the misogyny, racism, homophobia, and anti-semitism that is pervasive in 30something white liberals of our day & age. This a thought-provoking while not provocative film. The director treads the fine line between voyeurism & cinéma vérité very skillfully as he cuts away from certain characters at just the right moments, leaving us to wonder what happens while we aren't watching. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes a film that doesn't give easy answers.

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• The reviews posted here are obviously fake, avoid at all costs

  surrealisticpillow2011-08-28

  I didn't go into this film with high expectations. As a matter of fact, I sat down expecting to laugh at the horrible production values and hackneyed jokes of what promised to be another juvenile raunch comedy. If only. All-American Orgy comes off like one of those straight-to-DVD American Pie sequels, if it were written by a freshman film student trying his hand at social commentary. That is to say, it isn't funny, it isn't sharp, it isn't anything substantial. What it is, is awkward, paceless waste which has a profound humorlessness that is only rivaled by the pathetic desperation of the "commentary." The positive reviews here are so absurdly glowing that it's like the writers want us to know they're fake. Avoid.

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• Don't be drawn in by the title, there is nothing titilating (or entertaining) about this movie

  Mccadoo2012-02-03

  I actually watched this movie on cable one morning when I was home sick with the flu and I have to say, it didn't do much to improve my illness, or my general outlook on life either. It tries very hard to be edgy and funny and un-pc and all sorts of other things and fails miserably at all of them. I found the main characters to be either pathetic, unlikable, or just plain boring. And half way through the film you've stopped wondering when that actual orgy is going to start (it never really does) and begin wondering what these people could possibly see in one another in the first place. There's lots of dialog that says little, no resolutions to anything, and then it just kind of ends. The only empathy I felt for any of the characters was for the married woman who's husband had the original idea for the orgy and who is an utterly bankrupt human being, I felt sorry for her having to be married to this loser and sorry for her having to end up a single mom with two kids which is obviously where their relationship was headed. The other two male characters were just clueless idiots and you wonder how either of them ever got a woman to date them let alone agree to attend an orgy with them. Don't waste your time with this drek, it's a long way around the barn for nothing.

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• Unfunny attempt at comdey disguised as Natl Lampoon T&A sex romp

  mcdman22-30-609382011-04-17

  Reading the other reviews made me wonder what safegaurds this site has in place to prevent persons with a vested interest in the production from making positive comments about what seems to be the worst movie I have seen in a few years. I did not laugh. I did not snicker. I did not even crack a smile at this drivel. This whole film might be an elaborate scheme for the writer/actor to get his hands on the breasts of an actress he fancies. Only this would explain how someone can create such an unfunny mess. The writer did succeed in fleshing out some annoying characters who I feel no sympathy. If being annoying was the goal, this tripe hit the mark.

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