Rotten
Feels a bit like a racy after-school special.
Janice Page, Boston Globe
The Business of Fancydancing
Sometimes going home is the hardest journey of all.
2002 · 1h 43m · N/A Drama, Music
Overview
Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
59%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Where it goes wrong is in the combination of poetic sensibilities and run-of-the-mill narrative cinema.
David Hunter, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
It bristles with a passion and intelligence too intense to allow the film's style to seem pretentious.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Alexie's relatively novel take on the quintessentially American story of being stranded between cultures is compelling.
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Pretentious when it should be penetrating, spasmodic when it means to be lyrical.
Megan Turner, New York Post
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