
Longing to wipe the slate clean and move on with his life, the invisible, down-to-earth professional audience member, Eddie Krumble, travels from one studio to another with his best friend, Chris, to make a living cheering for products on countless infomercial shows. Having learned to content himself with his anonymity, when he doesn't put his hands together for dubious merchandise or ask softball questions, Eddie is looking for excuses to visit his secret crush, Judy: a mous... (Full plot summary below)
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Longing to wipe the slate clean and move on with his life, the invisible, down-to-earth professional audience member, Eddie Krumble, travels from one studio to another with his best friend, Chris, to make a living cheering for products on countless infomercial shows. Having learned to content himself with his anonymity, when he doesn't put his hands together for dubious merchandise or ask softball questions, Eddie is looking for excuses to visit his secret crush, Judy: a mousy cashier at a small gas station on Melrose Avenue. Then, Eddie catches the eye of the famous late-night talk show host, Jayme Stillerman, and just like that, anonymous Krumble becomes an overnight sensation. But, sometimes, love prefers to be quiet, and fame can be so loud and exhausting. Can there be a future between the clapper and the gas-station girl?
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| SF WeeklyJeffrey EdalatpourThe movie is a less assured version of Shira Piven's Welcome to Me, in which she and Kristen Wiig unleash the full neurotic potential of the "15 minutes of fame" expression. The Clapper only pays lip service to it. |
| Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaRarely does anyone's behavior here feel in any way tied to authentic human experience, only to Dito Montiel's fatally leaden comic touch. |
| We Got This CoveredLauren Humphries-BrooksThe Clapper is a sharp combination of sweet romance and biting satire on the cruelties committed in the name of entertainment. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfPerhaps Montiel is after something bigger than what "The Clapper" ultimately offers, but it's not an ambitious picture, hitting easy targets with crude screenwriting and bland performances. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen WhittyMostly it's a quiet salute to classic romantic comedy - and to a star who, frankly, is far nicer than the times he was born to work in. |
| Common Sense MediaJeffrey M. AndersonThough it's not exactly brilliant, this indie romcom is passably charming, and it finds offbeat atmosphere in an uncharted corner of Hollywood: scuzzy places where the glamorous would fear to tread. |
| Film ThreatBradley GibsonI expect shade will be thrown because of the film's low ambition, and it truly is (intentionally?) sloppy and doesn't have great production values, but the benchmark for stories is whether they can touch an audience and The Clapper does. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMontiel treats his story's happily unsung oddballs with sincere affection. He doesn't hold them up to ridicule, or insist that they snap out of their quirkiness and conform. But he doesn't quite know what to do with them. |
| AwardsCircuit.comJoey MagidsonThe concept here had potential, but the execution makes it completely dead on arrival. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe Clapper isn’t hateful, which is a huge step up for Montiel. It’s merely puerile, insipid, clumsy with only the barest hints of believeability. |