Opening Limited Theatrical March 29, 2024
Logline: Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend's wife. He has six months to live.
In LOUSY CARTER, David Krumholtz (OPPENHEIMER) stars as a ne'er-do-well literature professor adrift on a soulless college campus who learns he only has six months to live. With the clock ticking, will he change his ways? Probably not. Auteur writer/director Bob Byington’s slyly subversive film also features comedy all-stars Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby, Jocelyn DeBoer, Macon Blair, and Stephen Root.
Reviews are starting to come in! Rotten Tomatoes - 91% Fresh, IMDB 6.5
From the review from the Locarno Film Festival: (https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/locarno-film-festival-2023-antarctica-calling-patagonia-lousy-carter-critical-zone)
An offbeat comedy about a schlubby intellectual, Lousy Carter retreads an even more well-worn patch of indie-film terrain than Patagonia but does so with a satisfying lightness of touch and a very healthy dose of self-awareness. Carter (David Krumholtz) is a middle-aged English literature professor who, upon receiving the news that he will die of a previously undetected terminal illness in six months’ time, is inspired to renew the long-dormant filmmaking project that’s haunted his mediocre life of unfulfilled creative potential. He enlists the help of one of the students, Gail (Luxy Banner), from his undergrad class on The Great Gatsby, a bright, sardonic foil who, very early on in their arrangement, recoils from a mere mention of the possibility of embarking on a morally dubious May-December relationship with Carter.
Not that Carter is necessarily lacking in sexual magnetism. After all, he’s conducting an affair with the wife, Candela (Olivia Thirlby), of his friend and university colleague, Kaminsky (Martin Starr), and the confrontation with his mortality serves as an opportunity to reckon with that and a number of other messy relationships with people that he knows, including his overly critical alcoholic mother (Mona Lee Fultz) and estranged sister (Trieste Kelly Dunn).
Watch Mona's scene here:
https://x.com/letterboxd/status/1772654650971263179?s=20
More review links !
https://awardsradar.com/2024/03/27/film-review-lousy-carter-is-a-black-comedy-showcase-for-david-krumholtz/
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/locarno-film-festival-2023-antarctica-calling-patagonia-lousy-carter-critical-zone/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/movies/lousy-carter-review-blackboard-bungle.html
Logline: Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend's wife. He has six months to live.
In LOUSY CARTER, David Krumholtz (OPPENHEIMER) stars as a ne'er-do-well literature professor adrift on a soulless college campus who learns he only has six months to live. With the clock ticking, will he change his ways? Probably not. Auteur writer/director Bob Byington’s slyly subversive film also features comedy all-stars Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby, Jocelyn DeBoer, Macon Blair, and Stephen Root.
Reviews are starting to come in! Rotten Tomatoes - 91% Fresh, IMDB 6.5
From the review from the Locarno Film Festival: (https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/locarno-film-festival-2023-antarctica-calling-patagonia-lousy-carter-critical-zone)
An offbeat comedy about a schlubby intellectual, Lousy Carter retreads an even more well-worn patch of indie-film terrain than Patagonia but does so with a satisfying lightness of touch and a very healthy dose of self-awareness. Carter (David Krumholtz) is a middle-aged English literature professor who, upon receiving the news that he will die of a previously undetected terminal illness in six months’ time, is inspired to renew the long-dormant filmmaking project that’s haunted his mediocre life of unfulfilled creative potential. He enlists the help of one of the students, Gail (Luxy Banner), from his undergrad class on The Great Gatsby, a bright, sardonic foil who, very early on in their arrangement, recoils from a mere mention of the possibility of embarking on a morally dubious May-December relationship with Carter.
Not that Carter is necessarily lacking in sexual magnetism. After all, he’s conducting an affair with the wife, Candela (Olivia Thirlby), of his friend and university colleague, Kaminsky (Martin Starr), and the confrontation with his mortality serves as an opportunity to reckon with that and a number of other messy relationships with people that he knows, including his overly critical alcoholic mother (Mona Lee Fultz) and estranged sister (Trieste Kelly Dunn).
Watch Mona's scene here:
https://x.com/letterboxd/status/1772654650971263179?s=20
More review links !
https://awardsradar.com/2024/03/27/film-review-lousy-carter-is-a-black-comedy-showcase-for-david-krumholtz/
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/locarno-film-festival-2023-antarctica-calling-patagonia-lousy-carter-critical-zone/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/movies/lousy-carter-review-blackboard-bungle.html
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