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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Dylan Kidd
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Actors:
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Ben Shenkman,
Chris Stack,
Mina Badie,
Campbell Scott,
Jesse Eisenberg,
Isabella Rossellini,
Elizabeth Berkley,
Jennifer Beals,
Morena Baccarin,
Lisa Emery
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Duration:
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106 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)90
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Plot Summary:
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After cynical Reborn York advertising copywriter Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) is dumped by his on-again/far-off-again girlfriend Joyce (Isabella Rossellini), who is also his boss, his galling work day is additional complicated at near the unexpected immigrant of his 16 year-old nephew Nick (Jesse Eisenberg). After asking to invest the gloaming at Roger's, Dent reveals that he has come to pray fitting for help--in hopes of ditching his virginal station, Nick begs Roger in the course of a lesson in the art of seduction. Embittered Roger then takes on the role of a nocturnal drill sergeant in an imaginary battle between the sexes, starting Nick's training at a singles line. There, they meet two beautiful women (Jennifer Beals and Elizabeth Berkeley) who turn faulty to be less malleable than Roger expects. Before the night is through, Roger and Away go to some dark places where their preconceptions about women sadden smashed to pieces.
... With ROGER DODGER, first time pen-pusher-director Dylan Kidd has created a unequalled look at male-female relationships, full of momentous and humorous platitudes spoken by a misdirect personality as fascinating as he is unpleasant. As Roger, Scott (who also produced the shoot) creates a character who is remarkably hard to like, but is no less compelling for it. Eisenberg proves to be a notable foil in an impressive debut. The film takes an impressively dark turn in its third comport oneself, and reckless viewers are likely to relish this eccentric progress.
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Roger Dodger
Like the lead characters in many low-budget ignoring films, Campbell Scott's exactly-tongued advertising copywriter isn't easy to . Intelligent and attractive, yet cynical and manipulative, he gets a kick out of dispensing his dim sharpness to unguarded women in Manhattan bars. What begins here as a mocking one-clap in irons exposition receives an individualist, irresistible twist as Scott's chocolate, naive teenage nephew (Jesse Eisenberg in his debut) shows up in town, line on uncle's expected skills with the opposite sex to advise him shake off his virginity. The vitality of this pairing, enriched by natural chemistry between the actors, injects lightness and heart into the movie. The accompanying scenes in which Eisenberg's immature charm wins over out-of-his-leag...
Roger Dodger
"...A viciously funny movie. Hugely quotable and sublimely played. Utterly unmissable..."
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