The Misadventures of the Dunderheads, also known as Montana Amazon, is a 2012 American independent black comedy road feature film starring Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Osment, and Alison Brie.
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 grandkids.
Cast Olympia Dukakis – Ira Dunderhead Haley Joel Osment – Womple Dunderhead Alison Brie – Ella Dunderhead Ariel Winter - Ella (age 9) Veronica Cartwright – Margaret Ellen Geer – Vernice Lew Temple – Trevor Angel Oquendo – Panicky Richard James MacDonald – Heirik
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.
Awards The film, then titled Montana Amazon, won "Best Feature Film" at the 2010 "Big Apple Film Festival".
Alternate version In 2023, the film was recut to 83 minutes and retitled Montana Amazon Redux.
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