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  • 2024
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2024
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary When frequently fired Walt lands a position tending bar and de-roaching shoes at his local bowling alley AlleyCatz, he feels like he finally found a home. When money issues threaten AlleyCatz, Walt is pressured by former pro-bowler and current champion drinker Skunk to accept his role as the greatest bowler ever put on this earth. While...

Directed By: Isaiah Lester, Yassir Lester

Written By: Yassir Lester

  • 2024
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2024
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m

The Gutter

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary When frequently fired Walt lands a position tending bar and de-roaching shoes at his local bowling alley AlleyCatz, he feels like he finally found a home. When money issues threaten AlleyCatz, Walt is pressured by former pro-bowler and current champion drinker Skunk to accept his role as the greatest bowler ever put on this earth. While...

Directed By: Isaiah Lester, Yassir Lester

Written By: Yassir Lester

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
59
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4 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
25% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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2 Reviews

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80
Oct 31, 2024
For all its bawdy humor, it’s good clean fun.
By Stephen Saito FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 1, 2024
As with most comedies that throw everything out there (and throw common sense out the window) to get laughs, some bits and pieces don’t land. But the Lesters thankfully cram in enough ghettofabulous gags to keep me continuously giggling.
By Craig D. Lindsey FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 31, 2024
The Gutter’s humor rarely misses. The Lester brothers deploy jokes with precision, taking aim at everything and everyone.
By Lovia Gyarkye FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 31, 2024
The Gutter is ultimately an enjoyable throwback to the broad-skewing sports comedies of the '90s.
By Grant Hermanns FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 31, 2024
In addition to ridiculous — think the Wayans brothers’ parody pictures, or “Napoleon Dynamite” (that movie’s director, Jared Hess, is an executive producer here) — the humor is almost uniformly broad.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
38
Oct 31, 2024
The characters are never more than caricatures, the set-up is too conventional and the payoff doesn’t pay off at all. As for the jokes? Too many are awaiting that next rewrite or polish.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
35
Mar 26, 2024
On a comedic level, The Gutter is too quiet to be slapstick but too random to actually have an intelligent sense of humor.
By Fletcher Peters FULL REVIEW

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2 Ratings
25% Mixed
1 Rating
25% Negative
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Production Company Village Roadshow Pictures, Destro Films
Release Date Nov 1, 2024
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Tagline America's 15th favorite pastime just got dangerous.
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