Prince Avalanche (2013)
Directed by David Gordon Green
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
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They dress in the same blue jean overalls Kurt Russell wears in Big Trouble in Little China, except they don’t look nearly as awesome or fit as him.
Fans of indie auteur David Gordon Green’s early dramatic character studies should be pleased to hear that there’s much more of “George Washington” and “All the Real Girls” in this gently existentialist buddy movie than his mainstream studio efforts like “Pineapple Express.”
Known for making independent dramas that were genuinely well received by critics, Green made the jump to R-rated comedy in 2008 with " Pineapple Express " which went on to gross $87 million domestically on a $27 million budget.
Following a trio of studio features in recent years2008's " Pineapple Express ," 2011's " Your Highness ," and 2011's " The Sitter "writer-director David Gordon Green returns to his quieter, more thoughtful indie roots for the first time since 2008's " Snow Angels ."
Curiously moving, remarkably funny and refreshing, while featuring a wonderfully oddball tone that's minor key and sublime, "Prince Avalanche" is a major comeback for filmmaker David Gordon Green, whose eclectic career has traversed beguiling indies ("George Washington") and left-of-center mainstream comedies ("The Sitter," "Pineapple Express").
Then Green took a seemingly bizarre turn into goofball stoner-bro comedies: " Pineapple Express " and " Your Highness ."
David Gordon Green’s recent mainstream oeuvre has resulted in one hit (“Pineapple Express”) and two duds ( “Your Highness” and “The Sitter”), in both the commercial and the critical senses.
It also highlights an anachronism; since Madison as a girl’s name only became popular after the 1984 movie Splash, the odds of anyone dating one in 1988 is slim.
Other actors that have followed include Jack Black as the flamboyant and eclectic old-lady killer in Bernie (2012) and even Chris Rock as he brilliantly complemented the off-beat love of Julie Delpy in 2 Days in New York (2012).