Carolyn's sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenged athletes is their ticket to the trophy. But when the queen of formals finds herself mentoring Pumpkin, a disabled athlete, their two worlds collide.
Though Pumpkin extends its jaundiced joke too far, it's almost worth it for Ricci's final scene, which tells us everything we need to know about what will become of her.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
2 Aug 2002
fresh:
By presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world, Pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
7 Aug 2002
rotten:
This is the sort of Pumpkin that really deserves to be smashed.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug 2002
rotten:
Though Harris is affecting at times, he cannot overcome the sense that Pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities.