Gimme the Loot
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| Directed by | Adam Leon |
| Produced by | Natalie Difford Dominic Buchanan Jamund Washington |
| Written by | Adam Leon |
| Starring | Ty Hickson Tashiana Washington |
| Music by | Nicholas Britell |
| Cinematography | Jonathan Miller |
| Edited by | Morgan Faust |
| Distributed by | IFC Films |
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79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $104,235 |
Gimme the Loot is a 2012 American comedy film written and directed by Adam Leon. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival in 2012. It was released on March 22, 2013 in the U.S.
After premiering at SXSW, Gimme the Loot was picked up for distribution by IFC Films/Sundance Selects in the U.S. It was officially “presented” in its release by Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme.
The movie made its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to play at numerous festivals around the world, including the London Film Festival, Deauville American Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Film Festival. It was released theatrically in France by Diaphana in January 2013, IFC Films/Sundance Selects in the U.S. on March 22, 2013 and by Soda Pictures in the U.K. in May, 2013.
The film received positive reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 92% based on 64 reviews.Metacritic, another review aggregation website, assigned the film a score of 81%, based on 27 reviews from mainstream critics.
Roger Ebert called it, “A remarkably natural and unaffected film about friendship between two high-spirited graffiti artists” and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone in his 3.5 star review said the movie is, “A fresh, funky jolt of filmmaking joy.”
A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that, “Adam Leon’s loose and rambunctious debut… has a lot to say about the contradictions of a place that is defined by both abundant opportunity and ferocious inequality. But the film makes its points in a lighthearted, street-smart vernacular, treating its protagonists not as embodiments of a social condition but rather as self-aware individuals who are, like teenagers everywhere, both smart and dumb. Their friendship — which is based above all on shared artistic ambitions — is a perfect comic pairing.”
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