
Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past--Harry's drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with ... (Full plot summary below)
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Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past--Harry's drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with Max and the emotional dependency that keeps them from moving into adulthood.
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| Philadelphia InquirerDan DeLucaStrains to be sensitive rather than merely shocking, but winds up dull and uninvolving. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohYou watch this prurient would-be porn, treated with kid-glove 'sensitivity,' in a state of disbelief. |
| Village VoiceMelissa AndersonA swirl of messy boundaries and loony dialogue. |
| SPLICEDWireRob Blackwelder...incest...pedophilia...the film seems to be nothing more than an attempt to affirm a sense of I'm-OK-you're-OK normality for any viewers with such issues in their own lives. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIntermittently insightful, but a disappointment from the talented Munch. |
| New York PostDebra BirnbaumIf boy bands weren't already passé, Harry and Max would finish the job. |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonHarry and Max is writer-director Christopher Munch's seemingly candid exorcism of any number of self-consciously naughty fantasies. |
| Film ThreatBrad SlagerChristopher Munch wrote and directed this feature and it is nearly impossible not to feel deep-seated anger towards him for what he has wrought on screen. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenThere are brave, boundary-breaching movies, and there are mad, foolhardy ones. Harry and Max belongs to the latter breed. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasIt's one of those rare movie failures that truly warrants being called ambitious. |