Dinner in America

A movie with anti-establishment anti-social quicksilver coursing through its veins, but at its heart it is a sweet love story, one of the sweetest in recent memory.

“Dinner in America” delivers on surprise and explosiveness, but much of its offensive language, both racist and homophobic, feels gratuitous in a film that might have otherwise landed as an offbeat love story.

There’s much to enjoy here.

Despite the careful 1990s period details, this is a bruising and welcome riposte to John Hughes' 1980s teen movies.

A spirited, odd-ball comedy...I'll have this in hard rotation, and what a great double-bill this would make with Howard the Duck...

This sweet romcom is buoyed up by the chemistry between its leads.

“Dinner in America” is the sort of movie that a group of friends would have rented at their local Blockbusters in the ‘90s if all the copies of “Heathers” and “Pump Up the Volume” had been gone.

Rehmeier has created a punk rock Bonnie and Clyde, and the Patty/Simon relationship is a “nothing to lose by staying true” style of adventures, and nobody "adventures" better than an on-the-lam punk rocker and his music girlfriend. W/Emily/Kyle Podtalk.

Dinner in America is the rare film that doesn’t sand down its subject: punk rock.

Punk rebellion reigns here, and you better be prepared for some quite nasty scenes.