Pitching Tents

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Pitching Tents
Directed by Jacob Cooney
Written byRob A. Fox
Jayme Petrille
Produced byRob A. Fox
David Gere
Jayme Petrille
Starring
CinematographyChristopher Bye
Edited byDavid Hopper
Music byZack Ryan
Production
company
Meritage Pictures
Release date
  • 31 March 2017 (2017-03-31)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Pitching Tents is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Jacob Cooney, starring Michael Grant, Jim Norton, Booboo Stewart, Samantha Basalari and Jonathan Lipnicki.

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Reception

Katie Walsh of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "is all cutesy retro raunchiness without any innovation or comedic payoff", and that "it might have been excusable back in the day, but now it’s just boring." [1]

Joe Leydon of Variety wrote that "the perpetrators of this throwback flotsam have been so diligent in their efforts to replicate the look, tone and smirk of those instantly forgettable trifles, their movie could almost pass for a thirtysomething-year-old feature only recently recovered from a time capsule." [2]

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References

  1. Walsh, Katie (30 March 2017). "Review: Retro comedy 'Pitching Tents' flounders with '80s raunch". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  2. Leydon, Joe (31 March 2017). "Film Review: 'Pitching Tents'". Variety . Retrieved 8 October 2023.