Watch Burning Palms (2011), rated R, movie showing on January 14, 2011 in theaters wide. Burning Palms is a Comedy & Drama film. Burning Palms movie stars are Shannen Doherty, Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Colleen Camp, Jamie Chung, Robert Hoffman, Peter Macdissi, Emily Meade, Anson Mount, Rosamund Pike, Austin Williams, Tom Wright and Chandler George Brown and directed by Christopher B. Landon. A subversive tale that interlaces five stories where no taboo is left unexplored. Framed as a graphic novel come to life, the film unfolds in five popular neighborhoods of Los Angeles as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate. The film is distributed by New Films International. So download free Burning Palms (2011) movie online.
Media outlets such as The Hollywood Reporter and TV Guide reported that the ensemble-driven indie feature will star Shannen Doherty and Dylan McDermott as well as Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Colleen Camp, Jamie Chung, Robert Hoffman, Peter Macdissi, Emily Meade, Anson Mount, Rosamund Pike, Austin Williams, Chandler George Brown and Tom Wright.
Palms was scripted by Christopher B. Landon, who also wrote the 2007 thriller Disturbia. Palms will also mark Landon's directorial debut.
The film is currently in production with principal photography taking place in Los Angeles, California. It will also move on to shoot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Oren Segal, Steven Prince and Jason Hewitt are reported to be producing the film, and Tyler Thompson, Vince Morella and Naz Jafri will contribute as executive producers.
To date, the critical reception for the film has been largely negative. One critic described the film as being “one of the most offensive movies I’ve seen in the past decade”, going on to say:
If there’s a legitimate point to this film, then I missed it. I was distracted by how “in your face” the story was at all times, all but begging us to be offended by its crassness and politically incorrect content. Watching this film is a miserable experience, and almost all of the characters are despicable. Even the ones we’re supposed to care about are incredibly annoying –
Andrew Schenker of Slant magazine gave the film just half of one star out of a possible four. Writing of the film:
Landon's deeply cynical method is to conjure up the most aberrant corners of humanity and then wallow around in his self-created muck looking to scavenge what little scraps of humor he can find.
Gabe Callahan, of poptimal.com, pointed out his theories as to why the film was such a disappointment:
Burning Palms has a lack of focus climatically as each story limps to their anti-climatic reveals. For Landon’s directorial debut, Burning Palms is a movie that threatens to leave no taboo unexplored but the film seemed scared and hesitant of its own subject matter, and never takes the plunge into the deep end of dark and satirical film-making In this way the movie fails. The shocking parts are predictable, the funny parts fall flat, and the satire is non-existent. That is the core of the problem with Burning Palms: there is a fine line between satire and stereotypes. The film doesn’t seem aware of this line as it tries its hardest to make a point about stereotypes and taboos. It fails miserably at making this point and just ends up being misogynistic and naïve. I would have loved to have been shocked and disturbed. Instead I had to settle for disappointed.
The film currently only holds a 33% metacritic rating, and a 17% Rotten score on rottentomatoes.com.
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