Gummo

Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville—standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, Gummo is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-twentieth-century America.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 1997
  • 89 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #1238

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Harmony Korine, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New interview with Korine
  • Conversation from 1997 between Korine and filmmaker Werner Herzog
  • Split Screen: Projections episode from 2000 featuring Korine in conversation with host John Pierson
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Carlos Aguilar and an appreciation by filmmaker Hype Williams

    New illustration by Joao Rosa

Purchase Options

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Harmony Korine, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New interview with Korine
  • Conversation from 1997 between Korine and filmmaker Werner Herzog
  • Split Screen: Projections episode from 2000 featuring Korine in conversation with host John Pierson
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Carlos Aguilar and an appreciation by filmmaker Hype Williams

    New illustration by Joao Rosa
Gummo
Cast
Jacob Reynolds
Solomon
Jacob Sewell
Bunny Boy
Nick Sutton
Tummler
Chloë Sevigny
Dot
Darby Dougherty
Darby
Carisa Glucksman
Helen
Max Perlich
Cole
Linda Manz
Solomon’s mother
Credits
Director
Harmony Korine
Written by
Harmony Korine
Director of photography
Jean-Yves Escoffier
Casting by
Lyn Richmond
Music supervisor
Randall Poster
Costume design by
Chloë Sevigny
Production design by
David Doernberg
Edited by
Christopher Tellefsen
Coproduced by
Robin O’Hara
Coproduced by
Scott Macaulay
Produced by
Cary Woods

Current

Gummo: It Feels Like Home
Gummo: It Feels Like Home

In his entrancingly deviant directorial debut, Harmony Korine captures life in an impoverished, tragedy-stricken small town in all its beautiful fragility.

By Carlos Aguilar

Joao Rosa’s Experimental Approach to Designing Gummo

Studio Visits

Joao Rosa’s Experimental Approach to Designing Gummo

The creative director of Miami-based studio EDGLRD, which he cofounded with filmmaker Harmony Korine, describes the process of creating the cover artwork for Criterion’s recently released Gummo edition.