Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and th... Read allTwo highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
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- TriviaBased on a 'minimalist' Icelandic film, the movie was shot in only 16 days.
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- Crazy creditsThe letters for the title appear in time with the taps of the hammer as they hammer a post into the ground.
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Just a simple conversation between hilarious characters by great actors
"Prince Avalanche" is the story of two men and is the classic comedy of differences. Alvin (Paul Rudd) is in his late thirties and has such trouble connecting with other people that he doesn't even realize his marriage is in trouble as he prefers to spend time alone. Lance (Emile Hirsch) is in his early twenties and he is desperate for female companionship, or just presence of females, as he is way too into himself to understand true companionship.
Lance is also in need of a job and is paired with his brother-in-law, Alvin, to repaint highway lines in Texas following a devastating storm in 1988. The entire film is essentially just a conversation between the two men, and it's great. The dialogue is hilarious and Rudd and Hirsch have a very natural chemistry as the lines seem to have been written for them.
The comedy arises from the completely opposite life views that the two men share and how both are completely oblivious to their own flaws and they're also oblivious to their own failings with women. Rudd's Alvin has many smart, philosophical things to say and Hirsch's Lance is just so lacking of anything resembling smarts that he can't even point out Alvin's failings which should be obvious to everyone. Alvin has no problem pointing out Lance's failings but then there's the whole thing about people in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
The film has a magnificent simplistic setting in the woods in rural Texas, with wonderfully-realized simplistic characters and dialogue that naturally flows through the entire thing. "Prince Avalanche" is the story of how a former Hollywood director has returned to his simple, non-mainstream roots and two great actors found their perfect match.
Lance is also in need of a job and is paired with his brother-in-law, Alvin, to repaint highway lines in Texas following a devastating storm in 1988. The entire film is essentially just a conversation between the two men, and it's great. The dialogue is hilarious and Rudd and Hirsch have a very natural chemistry as the lines seem to have been written for them.
The comedy arises from the completely opposite life views that the two men share and how both are completely oblivious to their own flaws and they're also oblivious to their own failings with women. Rudd's Alvin has many smart, philosophical things to say and Hirsch's Lance is just so lacking of anything resembling smarts that he can't even point out Alvin's failings which should be obvious to everyone. Alvin has no problem pointing out Lance's failings but then there's the whole thing about people in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
The film has a magnificent simplistic setting in the woods in rural Texas, with wonderfully-realized simplistic characters and dialogue that naturally flows through the entire thing. "Prince Avalanche" is the story of how a former Hollywood director has returned to his simple, non-mainstream roots and two great actors found their perfect match.
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- Повелитель лавини
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- $725,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $205,139
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,694
- Aug 11, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $442,313
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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