| Nipples & Palm Trees | |
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| Directed by | Dylan Reynolds |
| Written by | Matthew James |
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| Cinematography | Matt Gulley |
| Edited by | Dylan Reynolds |
Production company | Jackson County Films |
| Distributed by | Cinema Epoch |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Nipples & Palm Trees is a 2012 American sex comedy film directed by Dylan Reynolds, written by Matthew James, and starring James, Sadie Katz, Akihiro Kitamura, and Vanessa Rose Parker.
After having trouble with his girlfriend, a painter named Jackson searches Los Angeles to find love, though he mostly finds casual sex.
Nipples & Palm Trees was released theatrically July 13, 2012, [1] and on DVD November 6, 2012. [2] Hulu picked it up in October 2014. [3]
Robert Koehler of Variety wrote that the film is too incompetent to be funny. [4] Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times described it as "a dreary, dirty-talking sex comedy from the you've-got-to-be-kidding-me school of filmmaking". [5] Michael Nordine of LA Weekly wrote, "Though Nipples and Palm Trees isn't without its eventual charms, the film is too content, for too long, to dwell on unfunny sleaze and thinly-sketched characters." [6] HorrorCultFilms rated it 8/10 stars and called it "quite possibly the biggest surprise of the year". [7]
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