Rotten
All-too-aptly named.
Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times
Overview
John Boyz lives close to where they film "Baywatch", but you'd never know it. His life is full of bizarre friends, sweaty sex, pistol wielding gangsters, bungling bureaucrats, police fanatics, revolutionaries, and weirdos. All John wants is a little peace of mind and a little piece of the action, but in "Floundering" it wont come easy.
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64%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This first feature by independent producer Peter McCarthy is fairly lightweight, but the cast and low-rent production credits have a certain charm.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
While the disjointed tale of contemporary alienation doesn't always connect the dots, it has a raw energy and sense of fun that's infectious.
Leonard Klady, Variety
Rotten
Because the speechifying lacks the cutting comic edge that distinguishes good satire, Floundering too often blubbers when it should be viciously funny.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
The movie gets a lot of mileage out of a seemingly simple concept.
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
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