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Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes19%
Metacritic38/100
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
113 audience votes
Key crew
- Christopher NeilDirector
- Mark PoirierScreenplay
- Woody JacksonOriginal Music Composer
- Jason SchwartzmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- David DuchovnyGoat Man
- Vera FarmigaWendy Whitman
- Graham PhillipsEllis Whitman
- Keri RussellJudy Whitman
- Justin KirkBennet
- Ty BurrellFrank Whitman
- Dakota JohnsonMinnie
- Anthony AndersonCoach
- Adelaide KaneAubrey
- Alan RuckDr. Eldridge
- Olga Segura-GallSerena
- Nicholas LobueBarney
Stills
Themes
high schoolgoat