The film tells the story of a young teenager dreaming of a sailboat and distant horizons who manipulates his unsuspecting alcoholic uncle into buying a boat from a conman when his mother is away.
13 March 1956, New York City, New York, USA
16 May 1986, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 July 1992, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 December 1953, Christopher, Illinois, USA
23 August 1956, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
3 November 1964, Queens, New York, USA
20 November 1989, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
19 June 1956, Hazlet, New Jersey, USA
July 25, 2012
... feels like an intimate, idiosyncratic acting workshop that might have worked better on stage.July 12, 2012
Though studied and grating at times, "Drunkboat" does sustain a distinct, odd tone. Like its characters it's dreamily restless and prey to its own quixotic ideas.July 12, 2012
This enigmatic coming-of-age movie often seems destined to sail off the deep end. Yet it rights itself just often enough to keep you watching.July 13, 2012
"Drunkboat" might have come off via nothing more than acting ability and a good heart, if the dialogue didn't amount mostly to aimless chit-chat.July 10, 2012
[An] incoherent drama.July 12, 2012
Horribly written, shockingly amateur. Contrived and exhausting don't begin to summarize this inert disaster.July 12, 2012
In the end, "Drunkboat" is no "Glengarry Glen Ross" or "American Buffalo," and even if it were, the real Mamet has always worked better onstage than on film.July 12, 2012
Drunkboat is a "small" movie that plays like a mawkish, Friedberg/Seltzer riff on a small movie.July 13, 2012
Undercooked, lazy and frustratingly underwhelming despite solid performances.July 10, 2012
Held up from release for years, probably because nobody knew what to make of it, the film deserves a look, and Meyer is a talent worth watching.July 13, 2012
The burnished smear of Lisa Rinzler's photography is a plus, but "Drunkboat" is ultimately the kind of pet project that never traverses from personal to powerful.July 30, 2012
A passion project ill suited to cinematic adaptation, or at least sludgy, unresolved, mannered and grating in its realized incarnation.