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Goats (2012) Ellis ( The Good Wife 's Graham Phillips), an alienated teen, smokes weed and hangs out with a goat-obsessed, pot-cultivating surrogate father (David Duchovny, hidden… R PT94M David Duchovny Vera Farmiga
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Goats (2012)

MPAA Rating: R
Reviewed by | Aug 10, 2012

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GOATS Graham Phillips and David Duchovny
Image credit: Gregory E. Peters
GOATS Graham Phillips and David Duchovny
EW's GRADE
C+

Details Limited Release: Aug 10, 2012; Rated: R; Length: 94 Minutes; With: David Duchovny and Vera Farmiga

Ellis (The Good Wife's Graham Phillips), an alienated teen, smokes weed and hangs out with a goat-obsessed, pot-cultivating surrogate father (David Duchovny, hidden by hair). New Age details aside, though, Ellis is easily identifiable as a distant cousin-by-genre to J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield, complete with a prep-school education. Mark Jude Poirier adapted the screenplay from his own lively 2001 coming-of-age novel. As directed by Christopher Neil, Goats reports the same events but loses the flavor of the journey. (Also available on VOD) C+

Originally posted Aug 08, 2012 Published in issue #1220-1221 Aug 24, 2012 Order article reprints
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Weekend of May 12 Box Office Source: Rentrak Corp.
Rank Title Weekend Gross* Weeks on Chart Cume. Gross* EW Grade
1.
Iron Man 3
Walt Disney Pictures
$72.5 2 $284.9 A-
2.
The Great Gatsby
Warner Bros.
$51.1 1 $51.1 B-
3.
Pain & Gain
Paramount
$5.0 3 $41.6 B
4.
Peeples
Lionsgate
$4.8 1 $4.8 C+
5.
42
Warner Bros.
$4.6 5 $84.7 B+
6.
Oblivion
Universal
$3.9 4 $81.7 C+
7.
The Croods
DreamWorks
$3.6 8 $173.2 C+
8.
The Big Wedding
Lionsgate
$2.5 3 $18.3 B
9.
Mud
Lionsgate
$2.3 3 $8.4 B+
10.
Oz the Great and Powerful
Walt Disney Pictures
$0.8 10 $230.0 C+
* in millions