The Knuckle Draggers film won the following awards…
“Best Editing” – Alex Ranarivelo
“Best Feature Film” – Places 2nd Alex Ranarivelo
“Best Actor” – Paul J. Alessi
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The Knuckle Draggers film won the following awards…
“Best Editing” – Alex Ranarivelo
“Best Feature Film” – Places 2nd Alex Ranarivelo
“Best Actor” – Paul J. Alessi
3/4 stars
I’m usually not the person to go to for romantic comedies as I haven’t found many I like. However, the reason this ranks higher than most is it takes a common theme yet makes it completely relatable to even someone as rom/com adverse as I am.
Despite the L.A. setting, the characters are all believable. The main problem I have with most of these films is that I can never imagine myself in that kind of situation – Knuckle Draggers, however, seems like something that could be happening right now, if not to me, then to someone I could imagine. I mean, the guys do… READ MORE
You know, it’s refreshing when a film actually tells it like it is, and I can’t remember seeing one that more clearly defined the truth about relationships between men and women than Knuckle Draggers. To start, here’s a quick description of the film from IMDB, written by the film’s writer and director, Alex Ranarivelo…
“Knuckle Draggers” takes a realistic, but comic look at how the behaviors of men and women have evolved very little since the caveman times. When Ethan, the needy nice guy, is dumped by his fiancee, he asks his misogynist older brother Kyle to help him win her back. Kyle tries to teach Ethan how to act like “a real man” and to never put a woman on a pedestal. Repulsed by his brother’s harsh views on how to treat women, Ethan ignores his advice and ventures out into the dating world, where he slowly realizes that everything Kyle says seems to be true.
That description gets to the core of the film, but it doesn’t tell you everything. There’s actually a … READ MORE