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GreenCine Daily found this 6/6/2008 on www.villagevoice.com [flag]
Distraught over his mom's death, adorably awkward but soulful 19-year-old Mercer (Lou Taylor Pucci) steals a car belonging to plucky boho babe Kate (Zooey Deschanel), who oddly befriends, guides, and flirts with her victimizer via cell phone. Passing eccentric strangers from Oregon to Nevada, the Great American Hipster Road Trip ensues, as Mercer quests to find his estranged half-brother and ... [link]

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The Go-Getter.
Published 6/6/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... to the genre, with the right - flickering - mixture of loneliness and enchantment, and with jokes that come at you from just around the bend." "[I]f you can look past writer-director Martin Hynes's familiar fest formula, his film modestly rewards with gorgeous sun-spotted cinematography, tender digressions in rather brave quantities, and believably charming dialogue that doesn't all sound like it came from the same brain (listen up, Diablo Cody)," writes Aaron Hillis in the Voice. The Go-Getter.">The Go-Getter.">The ...

The Go-Getter is in Theaters - Go See It!
Published 6/8/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... liked it quite a bit, saying of director Martin Hynes that his "originality speaks for itself." Over at the Village Voice, critic Aaron Hillis gives the film another positive review, saying the film "modestly rewards with gorgeous sun-spotted cinematography, tender digressions in rather brave quantities, and believably charming dialogue that doesn't all sound like it came from the same brain." ...

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