Product Details

• Actors: Jena Malone, Pamela Gray, Peter McRobbie, Jamie Harrold, Don Harvey
• Directors: Dave Silver
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
• DVD Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002V7TYM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #146,797 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Corn" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A woman returns home to have a baby & witnesses an environmental accident involving genetically modified crop of corn. Doubted by the community she questions her own sanity as she tries to discover whats happening. Her journey takes her on a trip down the food chain as shetracks the corn to the supermarket. Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 10/24/2006 Starring: Jena Malone Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg13

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pointless., September 3, 2005

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Mike C. (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corn (DVD)

Pointless is the one word that best describes this movie. The acting is decent, but just barely. Maybe they could have done better with a better script. Who knows? The premise is decent, but it goes nowhere. There are countless meaningless subplots in this storyline which have no bearing on the outcome of the movie.

To be blunt, there IS no outcome to this movie. The movie seems to exist solely for the sake of using up an hour and 37 minutes of film. There is one painfully long and awkward 30-45 second scene that involves a mailman delivering a letter and getting a scientist to sign for it. What's the point? Surely there must be one. You keep thinking they must be going somewhere with all of these painfully long and awkwardly paced scenes, so you keep watching. After all, you have invested an hour or so watching scene after scene of this, so you figure surely something is going to happen. Nope.

I wish I could think of a better way to describe how boring and pointless this movie is, but just like it's plot, there's no point.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars THE SHEEP MAY GET EWE, February 9, 2005

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corn (DVD)

I have to say CORN is one of the most unusual movies I've seen in a while. It's premise is original considering most of what is coming out these days; unfortunately, the originality doesn't always make a great movie. I'm not sure what screenwriter/director Dave Silver was hoping to accomplish, other than giving his little boy Luke a small but pivotal role. It's obvious he's trying to make a social comment on genetic engineering and corporate coverups; but also we have a young 18 year girl who is carrying the child of a man old enough to be her grandfather; she's also the victim of potential child abuse from her father when she was young; and she's having trouble keeping her job due to her pregnancy and the fact that she becomes a social megaphone for what's going on with the sheep on her father's ranch. But Silver doesn't truly focus on the corn issue as much as the girl's attempts to have a child, be a friend to Rachel, and understand her father. Jena Malone (Saved, Cold Mountain) gives a commendable if somewhat overwrought performance; Don Harvey as her father wasn't a strong enough actor to bring all the dimensions out; the rest of the cast is merely adequate. CORN is not a horror movie, so don't let the cover fool you; this is not a supernatural movie, just another one of those man vs. nature flicks. If the script had focused more on building suspense and showing us more of what the sheep were doing (there is one scene where they are attacking the little boy and you can surely tell the sheep are animatronic puppets). Overall, though, there is some interesting facts about genetics and Malone makes us stay interested, even up to its uh-oh, here come the chickens ending.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars When Sheep Attack, January 5, 2005

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Ghoulie Guru - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corn (DVD)

So I see this movie at Blockbuster. It's got a pretty ridiculous 3-D prismatic cover that features a herd of demonic sheep and it's called "Corn". I couldn't resist...

The tagline on the video box, "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature" is borrowed from an old margarine commercial. This thing has got to be awful, right? Well, the reality is that it's not quite as bad as you might imagine. It ends up being a weird Rosemary's Baby kind of story about genetic manipulation and aggression. Not done with the same panache of 28 Days Later, it still strives for a unique story. In the end, "When Sheep Attack" might have been a better title, and it's pretty boring at times... but I think two stars is fair.