Review of Pumpkin (2002) by Stephen B — 05 Oct 2007
Pumpkin is a movie about reevaluating your life and everything you've accepted as normal. Christina Ricci plays a college sorority girl who lives in a bubble. She's come from a life of wealth and ease that's never required her to think or confront social norms.
The biggest challenges in her life revolve around winning Sorority of the Year. Her sorority chooses to help a local team for a type of special olympics to secure themselves as Sorority of the Year. Ricci's character is at first horrified of the challanged guy she must mentor.
She finds him mysterious and then finds that there's more to him. She finds that the two of them connect on a kind of spiritual level. The relationship causes her to have struggles with herself, her boyfriend, her friends, and her family.
She's forced to confront social norms for the first time in her life. She grows through the struggle and in the end helps others to grow. It's a very touching film, very little sappiness, and very little offensiveness (unlike Shallow Hal and other similar types).
It's kind of a Heathers meets Harold and Maude type of film.
This review of Pumpkin (2002) was written by Stephen B on 05 Oct 2007.
Pumpkin has generally received mixed reviews.
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