Gummo

Gummo

Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.

199789 min6.6 / 10

A deliberately transgressive, visually grotesque portrait of post-disaster American decay told through the aimless lives of two teenagers in a broken town.

Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

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