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Butter
Directed by
Jim Field Smith
R
2011
90m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.2
35%
44%
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In Iowa, a girl in foster care discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town's annual contest.
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Cast of Butter
Jennifer Garner
Laura Pickler / Producer
Yara Shahidi
Destiny
Hugh Jackman
Boyd Bolton
Ty Burrell
Bob Pickler
Olivia Wilde
Brooke Swinkowski
Alicia Silverstone
Julie Emmet
Rob Corddry
Ethan Emmet
Ashley Greene
Kaitlen Pickler
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Ned Eaten
Kristen Schaal
Carol-Ann Stevenson
Phyllis Smith
Nancy
Garrett Schenck
Orval Flanagan
Judy Leavell
Helen Flanagan
Joe Chrest
Butter Fan
Deana Ricks
Butter Fan's Wife
Kelly Tippens
Mrs. Moore
Dodie Brown
June Carmichael
Brett Hill
Hayden
Mark Oliver
Martin Caswell
Cindy Creekmore
Danielle Mattingly
Jeanne Evans
Mrs. Gunderson
Corena Chase
Mrs. Schram
Jason Yudoff
Announcer
Andy Daly
Radio Announcer (voice)
Heather Cates
Laura's Fan (uncredited)
Gavin Casalegno
Art Class Student (uncredited)
Christine Scheller
Transitional Home Worker
Michael C. 'Mike' Allen
Corporate Employee
Jennifer Benton
Car Buyer
Charlotte Biggs
State Fair Patron
Pearce Chadwick
Webelo
Ted Ferguson
The Minister
Keri Shahidi
Biological Mother
Jim Field Smith
Director
Jason A. Micallef
Writer
Alissa Phillips
Producer
Michael De Luca
Producer
Butter Ratings & Reviews
Autostraddle
Carmen Phillips
The entire plot for Butter is the kind of wackadoodle delight that one should really experience with fresh eyes and their feet up on a couch with a bowl junk food at their disposal.
Variety
Peter Debruge
A wicked Midwest satire with razor blades stashed beneath its bright candy-apple surface.
The Hollywood Reporter
Todd McCarthy
Hardly the high-priced spread, this condescending comedy about Middle America will score with some audiences and put off others.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Butter contains enough genuine levity to slide down easily.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date.
Washington Post
Sean O'Connell
We're still just scratching the surface of witty, provocative humor as long as envelope-pushing directors such as Jim Field Smith continue to find work.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
At times, the Midwestern satire "Butter" is almost funny, and in its honor I almost laughed.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Director Jim Field Smith keeps the quirky characters coming with smooth efficiency and throws in some nice touches along the way.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
At 90 minutes it feels inflated, and though clearly intended as funny, it's difficult to locate, except in the most general terms, the focus of the movie's satire, and there's not a laugh to be had.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Given the talent assembled for this diversion, you can't believe it's not better.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The film grows increasingly mirthful as the characters come into focus, and the casting is the key: Ms. Garner, who also helped produce the film, has a gift for catty roles ...
NPR
Joel Arnold
Butter thrives on skewering characters whose self-importance isolates them completely from the consequences of their actions.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Drippy sentiment and coarse political satire vie for control of "Butter," a two-faced sendup of heartland obsession that wants to have its toast and eat it too.
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Butter is a film more enamored of its premise than interested in making it work.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
"Butter" is funny in spots, but it's so preoccupied with landing below-the-belt cultural jabs that it misses the opportunity for laying out biting social commentary.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Butter wishes it were a Christopher Guest sendup but comes off like a cheap imitation.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A shrill, cartoonish mess - not a total disaster, but no one's idea of a good movie.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's one thing to create biting social satire; it's quite another to shoot at such easy targets.
Slant Magazine
Zeba Blay
It's the film's unwillingness to deal with the sometimes hilarious and often problematic things its characters say and do that stands as one of its ultimate failings.
AV Club
Sam Adams
A toothless, insufferably smug satire using competitive butter-carving as a weak-tea stand-in for Midwestern politics ...
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