Pumpkin

Carolyn McDuffy has a comfortable life at college, with a wealthy family, a boyfriend and a place in her sorority. When the sorority sets out to win a campus award, its members take on coaching athletes with disabilities as their charitable project. Carolyn is paired with Pumpkin Romanoff, a young man whose world is far removed from her own, and the two form a connection that unsettles the expectations around her.

The film was directed by Adam Larson Broder and Anthony Abrams, from a screenplay by Broder, and produced by Ron Yerxa, Karen Barber and Christina Ricci. Ricci, then known for teen roles, plays Carolyn, with Hank Harris as Pumpkin, Brenda Blethyn as his mother, and Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan and Sam Ball among the supporting cast. It runs 118 minutes and was released in June 2002.

Reception was modest. A critics' rating of 5.2/10 across 74 reviews sits below the IMDb figure of 6.1/10 from around 10,000 votes, while on TMDB the rating is 5.8/10 from a much smaller number of votes. The gap between the two audience scores reflects how few users have rated it on TMDB compared with IMDb.