Movies, Other

The Avocado Movie Club #21: George Washington (2000)

Welcome to the Movie Club! This week’s movie is David Gordon Green’s directorial debut, George Washington!

Polish DVD release cover

George Washington stars Donald Holden as George, the titular character, a young boy in a poor rural town, whose skull never fully hardened. The movie follows him and his friends over the course of an unforgettable summer as they learn about loss for the first time and struggle to be something more than what they feel confined to.

 

George Washington was first screened at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb 10 and then again at various festivals throughout 2000 before being given a limited release in the US on October 27, 2000.1 It was critically acclaimed, earning an 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, and was a minor box office success as it made $342,722 against a very modest budget of $42,000.234

 

Trivia:56 

  • Most of the actors were mostly non-professionals picked by David Gordon Green to be in the film after they looked at hundreds of kids, ranging from ones with commercial work to people met randomly in crew’s day to day life. 
  • The cast and crew lived together in a house for two weeks before and then during production, which lasted 19 days.

What did you think? Share your thoughts below! 

Up Next: Our next movie will be Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, the musical comedy directed by Andy Fickman. We’ll meet to discuss on Friday, May 2 at 12:00 PM!

USA

  • Stream: Prime Video, Pluto TV, Fandango at Home, Fawesome, Tubi
  • Rent or Buy: Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Fandango at Home

Canada

  • Stream: Prime Video, Tubi
  • Rent or Buy: Google Play, YouTube

UK

  • Stream: Nada!
  • Rent or Buy: Nada!
  1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262432/releaseinfo/?ref_=tt_dt_rdat ↩︎
  2. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1097991-george_washington ↩︎
  3. https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/George-Washington#tab=summary ↩︎
  4. https://www.wnewsj.com/2024/11/21/from-micro-budget-to-nutcrackers-the-films-of-david-gordon-green/ ↩︎
  5. https://www.netribution.co.uk/features/interviews/2001/david_gordon_green/1.html
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  6. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/09/tff-s28.html
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