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Plot Summary
In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. Once vivacious couple, Roger and Georgie Lent, have settled into a complacent lifestyle of mediocrity where their marriage is falling apart and their children are turning away from them. Nonetheless, desperately discontent Georgie, pushes Roger into finding a way to invest in the market bubble in the hopes that their family can be saved with the money they are sure to make. When local tennis pro and part-time drug dealer, Pat, comes to Roger for investment advice, Roger sees his opportunity. Torn by the reality that his family could be saved by this dirty money, Roger finds himself staring down the barrel of a moral conundrum. Chlorine is the tale of classic American greed.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
8%- Reviews Counted: 12
- Fresh: 1
- Rotten: 11
- Average Rating: 3.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Mired in the blahs, the blues and the midlife crazies, this poor man's "American Beauty" slowly sucks your will to live.
Rotten: Some of "Chlorine's" scenes go for a pat lifestyle satire that can be diverting enough but feels secondhand. Elsewhere it makes wobbly overtures toward unearned dramatic poignancy ...
Rotten: A flat, undercooked suburban comedy. Or is it a drama? Or maybe a kind of satire? Regardless, it's short on style, substance or any clear raison d'etre.
Rotten: Jay Alaimo's tiresome dramatic comedy often seems as if it were assembled using the cut-up technique favored by Burroughs and his beat contemporaries, in which cliches are thrown together and arbitrarily rearranged.
Customer Reviews
A Poke At The “Rotten” Structure of America
This movie is wickedly accurate in exposing how the “get rich quick” schemes in RE work. It lays out how builders, bankers, and developers all work together to try and get rich quick at the expense of others. The acting is good and while sometimes funny, the underlying subject is very dark. I think everyone will see somebody they know in the characters portrayed. 4 stars only because there was so much more they could have done to expose even more “rot”. As I watching the ideas were coming fast and furious.
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