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Synopsis: Constructing this film through random scenes, director Harmony Korine abruptly jettisoned any sort of narrative plot, so here we go: Solomon and Tummler are two bored teenage boys who live in Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a tornado swept through it, destroying more than half the town and killing the same amount, including Solomon's father. The film, from there, chronicles the anti-social adventures these two boys have. These include sniffing glue, killing cats, having sex, riding dirtbikes, listening to black metal, and meeting a cavalcade of quirky, bizarre, and scary people. These include a man who pimps his mentally ill wife to our anti-heroes, three sisters who play with their cat and practice becoming strippers, a black midget fending off the sexual advances of a troubled man (played by the director Harmony Korine), a 12-year-old gay transvestite who is also a cat killer, Solomon's mother who seems to be the only glimpse of sanity, two foul-mouthed six-year olds, and most importan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Harmony Korine
Production: Fine Line Features
  4 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
19
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
R
Year:
1997
89 min
6,683 Views


had a heart attack and died...

so l guess they're getting ready

to go out of business.

l'm pretty smart,

if l say so myself.

Why is that?

This afternoon,

we walked into a fruit store...

and the clerk thought

l was some out-of-town hick.

''Those apples will be

two bucks each,'' he tells me.

That's where l outsmarted him.

l hand over a five...

And as he's about to give me

a dollar change, l say...

''Keep it. We're even.

''On the way in,

l stepped on a grape.''

You want this

by the cat or by the pound?

Don't matter.

l'll give you

a dollar a pound, then.

Hey, uh...

could you hook me up

with some glue?

What kind you want?

Not wood glue.

Not cement glue, either.

Do you have butcher's

model glue, in tins?

Yeah. l'm gonna go get it, man.

Who was it?

Who killed that little baby cat?

-Joseph.

-Was it?

Yeah. lt was ate up

with maggots, though.

They had to kill it.

They're just strays.

All these cats around here

have twenty babies.

Little bitty old black cat.

He wasn't about this long.

We was trying to figure out

how to make it stay away.

Couldn't do it. He said,

''Give me a bottle of gasoline.''

He opened its mouth up

and poured it full of gasoline.

Get that son of a b*tch. l ain't

never seen that cat since.

Lit it. Poured gas down it.

Poured gas down it, man,

and lit it.

l ain't never killed nothin'...

just to be killing it,

besides that cat.

He lit a cat on fire

for six hours.

Boom ! Boom !

No, l seen somebody put one

in a microwave.

That motherf***er melted.

They got me for a damn BB gun.

You shouldn't have pulled it

on that girl.

l didn't pull it on that girl.

You're crazy!

You're crazy, man.

You're crazy, man.

l didn't pull that BB gun out.

When l went to jail, they put us

in the old juvenile...

because the jails were so full.

lt was one little room...

with a big old silver hard bed

on a brick wall.

There was eighty-five people

in the same cell with us.

Worst thing l hate about it

was them n*ggers down there.

l--God, boy, hey, mmm.

They make me so mad, l just want

to tear their head off.

l hate the motherfuckers.

l just don't like 'em.

You got them all. lf you

hit one, you get them all.

They have ten

to every one of you.

-They ain't gonna fight fair.

-Unless you got n*gger buddies.

That's it. lf you got

some good Latin buddies...

l had some good--some good

n*gger friends at Pearl.

Solomon...

did your mom find a new house?

l saw a house yesterday...

near my house.

l think it was this lady's.

l saw a sign, ''for sale.''

lt had a bullet hole

in the mailbox.

A hole?

A big old hole.

l think my brother shot it down

when l was younger.

l think it was him.

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Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing Kids and for writing and directing Spring Breakers, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. more…

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