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Percy vs. Goliath

  • Rated PG 13
  • 2hr
  •  (12)
  • 56

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Clark Johnson

Producer:

Daniel Bekerman, Ian Dimerman, Ethan Lazar

Writer:

Garfield Lindsay Miller, Hilary Pryor

Release Date:

Apr 30, 2021

Runtime:

2hr

Synopsis

Based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, PERCY follows small-town farmer Percy Schmeiser, who challenges a major conglomerate when the company's genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in the 70-year-old farmer's crops. As he speaks out against the company's business practices, he realizes he is representing thousands of other disenfranchised farmers around the world fighting the same battle. Suddenly, he becomes an unsuspecting folk hero in a desperate war to protect farmers' rights and the world's food supply against what they see as corporate greed.

Cast

  • Christopher Walken
  • Roberta Maxwell
  • Pathy Aiyar
  • Monique Alvarez
  • Adam Beach
  • Zach Braff
  • Andrea del Campo
  • Martin Donovan
  • Warren Ellis
  • Zoe Fish

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Loved it! If you like cheering for the underdog, this movie is for you!

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Metacritic

56
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Based on 7 Critics
6.6

USER SCORE (9)

Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Reviews
75
Apr 30, 2021

Still, this is an involving and inspirational tale, highlighted by a Christopher Walken performance that is remarkably free of any showy tics or mannerisms and is a reminder Walken is a great actor first, a lovable caricature second.

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Metacritic review by Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
63
Apr 30, 2021

Frustratingly poised on the knife's-edge of pretty good but not as good as you want it to be, the movie might've benefitted from a more leisurely but focused pace that would've allowed the characters to breathe more, and the legal and scientific concepts to be explained with greater clarity.

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Metacritic review by Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz
RogerEbert.com
63
Apr 29, 2021

Percy vs. Goliath is dramatically flat, predictable in its pluck at times. But Walken is magnificent, and the other casting — on the nose as it is (Ricci can still pull off the young activist willing to sleep in her car for the cause) — works.

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Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
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