''The Misadventures of the Dunderheads'', also known as ''Montana Amazon'', is a 2012 American
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feature film starring
Olympia Dukakis
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Haley Joel Osment
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Alison Brie
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Plot
The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira careens across the American West with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grand kids, into a comic collision with the mainstream world. Montana Amazon is a both funny and poignant fable on the nature of the human family.
Cast
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Olympia Dukakis
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- Ira Dunderhead
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Haley Joel Osment
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- Womple Dunderhead
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Alison Brie
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- Ella Dunderhead
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Veronica Cartwright
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- Margaret
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Ellen Geer
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Geer was born in New York City, the daughter of actors Herta Ware and Will Geer. Her father was best-known for playing Grandpa Zebulon "Zeb" Walton on ''The ...
- Vernice
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Lew Temple
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- Trevor
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Angel Oquendo
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Reception
The finished film premiered in October 2012 at the Los Angeles Femme International Film Festival where its director, D.G. Brock, won the Best Feature Film Director award. The film was shown theatrically in art houses across the South by The Southern Circuit in March and April 2013. It was shown on the Starz Movie Channels from 2013 through August 2014.
References
2012 films
2012 black comedy films
2012 independent films
2010s comedy road movies
American black comedy films
American independent films
American comedy road movies
2010s English-language films
Films about dysfunctional families
Films about siblings
Films shot in California
Murder in films
2010s American films
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