Fresh
A wicked Midwest satire with razor blades stashed beneath its bright candy-apple surface.
Peter Debruge, Variety
Butter
A comedy about sex, power and spreading the wealth.
2012 · 1h 31m
Comedy
Directed by
Jim Field Smith
Overview
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.
Director and cast
- Jim Field Smith Director
- Jennifer Garner as Laura Pickler
- Yara Shahidi as Destiny
- Hugh Jackman as Boyd Bolton
- Ty Burrell as Bob Pickler
- Olivia Wilde as Brooke Swinkowski
- Alicia Silverstone as Julie Emmet
- Rob Corddry as Ethan Emmet
- Ashley Greene as Kaitlen Pickler
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Ned Eaten
- Kristen Schaal as Carol-Ann Stevenson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Hardly the high-priced spread, this condescending comedy about Middle America will score with some audiences and put off others.
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date.
Nick Schager, Village Voice
Rotten
The movie's entire superior attitude is kind of annoying.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
We're still just scratching the surface of witty, provocative humor as long as envelope-pushing directors such as Jim Field Smith continue to find work.
Sean O'Connell, Washington Post
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