'Ponderosa' Review: Bill Camp Shines in Rob Rice's Eccentric Black Comedy About an Unlikely Suburban Bond
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Guy Lodge
Summary
A review of Rob Rice's black comedy 'Ponderosa,' starring Bill Camp and Jack Dylan Grazer. The film explores the unlikely and unsettling bond between a deranged, outmoded older man and a shiftless, isolated younger man in modern suburbia. The review praises Camp's leading performance and describes the film as a defiant oddity destined for cult status, while noting its quietly sinister and peculiar tone.
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Variety'Ponderosa' Review: Bill Camp Shines in Rob Rice's Eccentric Black Comedy About an Unlikely Suburban Bondvariety.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledOne of the great secret weapons of American film and TV in recent years, solid-gold supporting actor Bill Camp gets a rare and fascinating leading showcase in 'Ponderosa.'
A defiant oddity that deserves to find its own select and equally eccentric cult.
The film fixes its gaze on two strange, sad male archetypes of modern suburbia — the purposeless, woefully outmoded boomer and the shiftless, willfully isolated zoomer — only to tease out yet stranger, sadder connections.
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