Prince Avalanche

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Prince Avalanche

R,

2013,

1h 33m,

Comedy/

Drama

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Two road-crew workers (Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch) spend the summer of 1988 isolated and away from their city lives, eventually finding themselves at odds with each other and their women back home.

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Critics Consensus

A step back in the right direction for director David Gordon Green, Prince Avalanche shambles amiably along with a pair of artfully low-key performances from Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

Sep 6, 2017

3/5

There's almost no plot and just two other minor characters but Prince Avalanche is a haunting, eccentric and ultimately touching little curio.

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Roxana Hadadi

Punch Drunk Critics

Jan 9, 2017

0.5/5

This isn't a film; it's a one-act high-school play. Feel free to leave Prince Avalanche flailing in the wilderness.

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Jonathan Robbins

Film Comment Magazine

Nov 4, 2013

The journey taken by Alvin and Lance has few plot points, but the film is remarkably gripping and rich.

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Matt Oakes

Silver Screen Riot

Oct 15, 2026

F

Green proves that being both smug and dull are a lethal combination and results in a film that I, for one, couldn't wait to end.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Jul 23, 2025

2/5

"Artful" and "low key" are the two adjectives being tossed around the most for Prince Avalanche and they fit the description. The trouble is "artful" and "low key" can be synonyms for "ponderous" and "boring."

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JD Duran

InSession Film

Aug 16, 2024

This is a huge step in the right direction for David Gordon Green who has dipped after his last few films, but Prince Avalanche is a pretty good film right out of the Richard Linklater playbook.

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Abraham S

Dec 3, 2018

A return to form for David Gordon Green.

Harry W

Sep 9, 2016

Interesting character study of life among the ruins of a wildfire and the relationship between two workers alone putting lines back on the road that runs through it.

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Luke S

Aug 21, 2013

After releasing a series of fairly big-budget studio comedies (I.E. Pineapple Express) director David Gordon Green returns to his indie roots with this low-key effort. A bro-mance and a two-actor show, Green gets some quirky performances from his two leads, and supplies them with smart dialogue too. He also shows that he still can make film's with a minimalist's eye, and we can be grateful that Prince Avalanche never ventures out of its forest setting. That said, the film is sloppier in other regards, as it seems that the tone can't decide whether it should be goofy or meditative, and I just can't help but feel that the score from Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo doesn't entirely work for a film with this this kind of an overt sense of humor. Flawed, but certainly worth the price of admission for those looking for solid arthouse territory.

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Synopsis

Two road-crew workers (Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch) spend the summer of 1988 isolated and away from their city lives, eventually finding themselves at odds with each other and their women back home.

Director: David Gordon Green
Producer: Lisa Muskat, Derrick Tseng, Craig Zobel, James Belfer, David Gordon Green
Screenwriter: David Gordon Green
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Muskat Filmed Properties, Doco Digital, Dogfish Pictures
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 9, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $205.0K
Runtime: 1h 33m

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