
Alby Cutrera yearns for a time when life was carefree and action figures were twelve inches tall. When his wife insults him for being more of a playmate than a father to his young son, Alby heads for safety and tracks down his boyhood pal Elias whose memory of their younger days is considerably less rosy. They set out on a road trip to Diggityland, their favorite place as kids, but simpler times turn complicated as the two friends confront the land mines of their past. Journe... (Full plot summary below)
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Alby Cutrera yearns for a time when life was carefree and action figures were twelve inches tall. When his wife insults him for being more of a playmate than a father to his young son, Alby heads for safety and tracks down his boyhood pal Elias whose memory of their younger days is considerably less rosy. They set out on a road trip to Diggityland, their favorite place as kids, but simpler times turn complicated as the two friends confront the land mines of their past. Journeying through the Oz of Central Florida, they encounter a cast of wounded roadside romantics - a disgruntled ex-theme park employee, a horny bartending clown, and a delusional mermaid - each one shedding light on the perils of not letting go. Full Grown Men is the bittersweet tale of a man who learns the hard way that the best years of his life may still lie ahead of him.
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| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezFull Grown Men marks the feature debut of director David Munro, who was born and raised in Miami and shoots Florida like a native. |
| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttObviously, Munro is reaching for something about how people allow themselves to get mired in the past. But his characters and situations are so exaggerated and dreary that his point gets quickly lost. |
| DVDTalk.comBrian OrndorfPeter Pan syndrome is a tremendously interesting psychological condition, but Men would rather make tiresome action figure jokes and spotlight whining characters. Blah. |
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottFull Grown Men might work better if the audience was given a reason to feel even a small sliver of sympathy for Alby |
| Village VoiceEd GonzalezFor better and for worse (at least for a story about a man struggling to behave like an adult), Full Grown Men feels and thinks with the heart and mind of a child. |
| New York PressAshna AliThe world is uncomfortably perfect, and sparkly wide shots of stretches of landscape across which Alby walks reduce him to the lost little boy he insists on remaining, swallowed by the big bad world. |
| L.A. WeeklyF.X. FeeneyLyrical and funny, Full Grown Men is a tough-minded film about the need to grow up. |
| New York PostLou LumenickNicely photographed and has impressive sets; too bad there's so little going on that it seems long even at 78 minutes. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFriedlander offers a nicely subtle performance, but the other actors - including Alan Cumming, Deborah Harry and Amy Sedaris - appear to have turned up as a favor to the director. Don't feel obliged to follow their lead. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayFull Grown Men often becomes as intolerably silly as the twee Amerindies it's reacting to. |