
Gummo(1997)
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.


“A fascinating journey into the mind of an adolescent schizophrenic.”
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed and abusive German father.

Ewen Bremner
Julien

Chloë Sevigny
Pearl

Werner Herzog
Father

Evan Neumann
Chris
Joyce Korine
Grandmama

Alvin Law
Card-Playing Neighbor
Brian Fisk
Pond boy
Miriram Martinez
Teenage Girl
Edgar Erikkson
Bearded Man
James Moix
Dancing Man
Julien Donkey-Boy is a drama film released in 1999 exploring themes of schizophrenia, abusive father, dysfunctional family, dead mother, miscarriage, blunt. Directed by Harmony Korine, it stars Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog. Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed and abusive German father.
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