
Our filthy hero Gus mutters to himself, just before stealing a white Rolls Royce. He happens upon Ruby, a stunning tattoo artist he's always had a thing for, and waves her into the convertible. The misfits escape the city and into nature, sharing a joint, wondering why things used to be so much cooler in the '70s. Asthma is a modern romance that explores addiction in a fresh and honest way. She warns him not to fall in love with her, but the higher you are the harder you fall... (Full plot summary below)
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Our filthy hero Gus mutters to himself, just before stealing a white Rolls Royce. He happens upon Ruby, a stunning tattoo artist he's always had a thing for, and waves her into the convertible. The misfits escape the city and into nature, sharing a joint, wondering why things used to be so much cooler in the '70s. Asthma is a modern romance that explores addiction in a fresh and honest way. She warns him not to fall in love with her, but the higher you are the harder you fall.
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| Slant MagazineChuck BowenAsthma inevitably becomes another film about a man airing out his traumas and hitting all the requisite marks on his path to healing. |
| Seattle TimesTom Keogh"Asthma" loses its spark and momentum long before the halfway point - a genuine disappointment. |
| Salt Lake City WeeklyScott RenshawToo bad the music has to stop for anyone on screen to talk. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe soundtrack is fantastic and Samuel eminently watchable, but "Asthma" suffers from near-lethal doses of self-satisfied hipness. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangThe problems run far deeper than craft — it is simply a film that has no reason to be made, a story without point or insight or drive. |
| Under the RadarJason WilsonLike its protagonist, the film is doomed by how small of an imprint every aspect leaves. |
| Bust MagazineTaia HandlinJake Hoffman's feature film directorial debut, Asthma, deploys almost every romantic comedy trope there is, all the while throwing in heroin to give it some street cred. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeRitter’s performance is the liveliest thing in a callow, shallow cautionary tale, which wears its influences on its artfully frayed sleeve and no closer than that to its heart. |
| The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonLack of originality and self-awareness prove to be a fatal combination. There is something way too familiar about Hoffman's rites-of-passage portrait of wasted youth, with its inevitable soundtrack of fashionable angst-rock and predictably retro-cool cult-movie influences. |
| User ReviewSierra Bthis movie is fantastic. fuck the critics. |