Applesauce (film)

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Applesauce
Directed by Onur Tukel
Written byOnur Tukel
Produced byMatt Grady
Melodie Sisk
Karl Jacob
Greg Newman
Starring Max Casella
Trieste Kelly Dunn
Jennifer Prediger
Onur Tukel
Dylan Baker
CinematographyJason Banker
Edited byJustin Kavoussi
Onur Tukel
Music byMichael Montes
Distributed by MPI Media Group
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Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Applesauce is a 2015 black comedy film written and directed by Onur Tukel. The film stars Tukel, Max Casella, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Jennifer Prediger, and Dylan Baker.

Contents

Cast

Release

Applesauce premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 19, 2015. [1] The film was distributed by MPI Media Group and was released on VOD and DVD on November 24, 2015. [2] [3]

Reception

Critical response

Applesauce received a positive response from critics. The film holds a 71% positive "Fresh" rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. [4] Ronnie Scheib of Variety praised Applesauce as "Onur Tukel's latest and most accomplished microbudget exercise in cynical absurdism" and added, "With its sarcastic dialogue, deadpan humor, believably flawed characters and surreal logic, 'Applesauce' may expand Tukel's growing indie fan base into niche release." [2] Eric Kohn of Indiewire gave the film a modest "B" rating, calling it a "spot-on urban satire." He further wrote:

The movie's third act melts into a series of random twists involving death, multiple acts of vengeance and other peculiar developments, some of which are left unresolved. Even then, however, the wacky, unruly plot has a consistent through line: Tukel invests most of his narrative making terrible people objects of ridicule, with a final punchline suggesting that, in the game of life, everyone's stuck on one side or the other of the same bad joke. [5]

Conversely, Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter criticized the script for possessing "an unfavorable view of human nature that it’s difficult to identify any likeable characters, most of whom are constantly scheming to manipulate and discredit one another." He added:

As the principal instigator, Tukel bestows Ron with an outsize share of unpleasant qualities that are elaborated with a tiresomely repetitive performance that draws the supporting cast into a diminishing spiral of criticism and retribution. Their sometimes vague motivations and a series of implausible plot developments are further off-putting factors periodically derailing the narrative, which consistently struggles to connect, despite the film’s passable indie-production aesthetic. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Collis, Clark (April 13, 2015). "Tribeca 2015: Exclusive clip from Applesauce asks, 'What's the worst thing you've ever done?'". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Scheib, Ronnie (May 11, 2015). "Film Review: 'Applesauce'". Variety . Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ Collis, Clark (November 2, 2015). "Go out on a limb with the exclusive red band trailer for black-comedy Applesauce". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Applesauce". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved April 14, 2016.
  5. ↑ Kohn, Eric (April 23, 2015). "Tribeca Review: New York Comedy is Rarely More Scathing Than Onur Tukel's 'Applesauce'". Indiewire . Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ Lowe, Justin (April 21, 2015). "'Applesauce': Tribeca Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 19, 2015.
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