Gummo

Gummo (1997)

Timing: 1:29 (89 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1997-10-17

Country

United States

Production

Independent Pictures (II), Fine Line Features

Genre

Drama, Comedy

Budget

$1 300 000

Revenue

$116 799

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Director

Harmony Korine

Actors

Jacob Reynolds, Linda Manz, Chloë Sevigny, Carisa Glucksman, Darby Dougherty, Jacob Sewell, Mark Gonzales, Daniel Martin, Harmony Korine, Max Perlich
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Scenario

Harmony Korine

Producer

Cary Woods, Ruth Vitale, Stephen Chin

Operator

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Composer

Artist

Andrea Stanley

Audition

Lyn Richmond

Editing

Christopher Tellefsen
All team (27)

• While filming on location, director Harmony Korine and cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier (1950-2003) often had to flee from local residents armed with sawn-off shotguns, who believed they were filming pornography.
• Actors for the film were cast during a long period of pre-production. Harmony Korine often offered roles to ordinary people he met in bowling alleys or fast-food restaurants.
• Chloe Sevigny was in charge of costumes. She found most of them in thrift stores around Nashville.
• To give the image a yellowish tint, fluorescent lamps were used during the filming of the movie, rather than conventional lighting fixtures.
• The film's title uses the name of the fifth and least-known of the Marx brothers, who participated in stage productions but did not appear in the films that brought the Marx brothers widespread fame.
• Harmony Korine wrote the screenplay from the scripts of around seventy sketches about life in the small town of Xenia, Oregon, a place he himself had never visited.
• In the scene where the father and son are arm wrestling, the bottles on the table disappear and reappear.
• Harmony Korine wrote the screenplay from scripts of around seventy sketches he had written about life in the backwater town of Xenia, Ohio, a place he himself had never been.