Pumpkin (2002)

Splitting the difference between smug black-comic satire and sincere melodrama leaves the filmmakers with an untenable mess of crap on their hands. It gets a little less unbearable once they phase out the toothless satirical jabs and concentrate more on the dramatics, but it's still fucking lame. Exactly the kind of liberal-guilt-PC shit Solondz skewered in the good part of Storytelling.

Grade: D+