Pumpkin (2002)

Pumpkin (2002)




Synopsis

Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are put off by the activity. Carolyn's discomfort begins to dissipate after meeting Pumpkin Romanoff (Hank Harris), a young man in a wheelchair who has dreams of competing in the shot put. Slowly, Carolyn falls in love with Pumpkin, sending her into conflict with her boyfriend Kent (Sam Ball), her sisters, and Pumpkin's mother (Brenda Blethyn). This film was screened at ~the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

What Critics Say


Pumpkin may be trying to deliver a goodhearted message in a blackly comic way, but it misses the mark on a number of levels, despite some clever lines and good performances all around.
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  • MUSIC NOTES: Final Bow for Pumpkins

    HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4, 2000 -- After 13 years on the road and 22 million albums sold worldwide, the Smashing Pumpkins bid farewell to their fans Saturday with a blistering 4 1/2-hour show in Chicago on the very same stage they made their debut on Oct. 5, 1988.

    The band’s retirement show took place at the Metro, a 1,100-capacity club where the band first got it start –- led by a tall, lanky guitarist named Billy Corgan, Reuters reports. The band broke their show up into four separate “acts,” with a clown prancing around on stage to circus music in between.

    “Welcome to the last gasp of the Smashing Pumpkins,” Corgan said at the outset of Saturday's show.

    The Pumpkins played a musical collage of all their hits from the past decade, starting off the show with “Rocket” and continuing with such memorable hits as “Cherub Rock,” “Today,” “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” and olde



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