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Box Elder 2-disc DVD (2008)

Todd Sklar  |  NR |  DVD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Directors: Todd Sklar
  • Producers: Brock Williams
  • Format: NTSC, Color, Widescreen, Special Edition, Dual Disc
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0026E67KK
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,370 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

"Animal House meets Clerks." - the San Francisco Examiner

"The Great American Bromance." - Minnesota Daily Tribune

"Slacker Bliss!" - the Chicago Sun Times

"Beautifully versed in the language of dude." - Chicago Red Eye

"THE college movie of the new millennium." - East Valley Tribune

Box elder bugs are loud, scary looking, and dependent on group swarming. They're also completely harmless and extremely passive aggressive. Using this metaphor to address a generation that thinks big, talks fast, and threatens to change the world, Box Elder is an unapologetic portrait of a youth movement at odds with its own ambivalence, exposing a generation defined by privilege, potential, and self-induced paralysis.

At once painfully hilarious and delicately poignant, the film follows four best friends through their last years of college. Dependent on their parents financially and on each other emotionally, they spend their time sleeping in, hanging out, and eating lots of sandwiches. Using break-ups and re-occurring scholastic failures to impose a quarter-life crisis, they take turns postponing responsibility, avoiding accountability, and looking for someone or something to substantiate their lives, all the while hedging their bets and mastering the art of treading water and getting away with it.

Released in 2008, "Box Elder" was taken on tour by writer/director Todd Sklar, where it was shown in arthouse theaters and on college campuses across the country. The film was met with unanimous appreciation, and the progress of the tour was followed closely by Filmmaker Magazine.

This special edition DVD contains 15 deleted scenes, bloopers & outtakes, improv, behind-the-scenes featurette, 3 entertaining and educational audio commentary tracks, and a host of additional special features.


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A Bromance Opera January 26, 2010
Box Elder is a tremendous debut feature from Todd Sklar. It is not a typical college comedy or the beer drinking, random sex variety. True, there is plenty of beer drinking and sex, but this film offers so much more. It is as if the French New Wave directors were alive and kicking today and they chose to tackle the subject of college. The soundtrack is filled with great rock and roll, the cinematography is elegant and thoughtful, and the film is just plain hilarious. The 2 disc DVD is also a must have, it's filled with hilarious outtakes and the box features a great review of the film that is very poignant and insightful. Let's do it.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
If Kevin Smith began the wave of independent films over the next 15 years, director Todd Sklarr's heartfelt comedy is certainly part of a pack of films [...] again redefining how films are made and distributed. If you like films like Clerks and Swingers, this is definitely one worth checking out.
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Maybe it's because I made it, but I sure think this is a good little movie. Maybe you will too? Whydontcha buy a copy and find out....
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