Everybody's Fine

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Directed By: Kirk Jones
Starring: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale
Year: 2009
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Theatrical Release: 12.4.2009
DVD Release: 2.23.2010
Plot Summary: A widower (Robert De Niro) sets out on a road trip to reconnect with each of his adult children, then he finds that their lives are far from perfect.

Reviews

CRITICS5.0

USERS6.0


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...warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill.

—Kyle Smith New York Post

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8
...warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill.

—Kyle Smith New York Post
7
...content to be a simple, sincere heartwarmer.

—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
6
Though a bit too artful to merit the pejorative "tearjerker" label, the film is rigorously streamlined to deliver a good emotional uppercut by the end, and purely on the strength of its craft, it connects. But aside from an atypically mannered Robert De Niro, there's very little new to see along the way.

—Andrew Barker Variety
6
All that could redeem this thoroughly foreseeable unfolding [story] would be colorful characters and good acting. Everybody's Fine comes close, but not close enough.

—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
6
Though De Niro gives a strong performance as a loving, if not always perceptive, dad, the film takes a treacly turn, grows truly sad and never fully recovers.

—Claudia Puig USA Today
5
If the film had been left to the promise of its early moments, it could've been a sharp little showcase for its performances, particularly De Niro. Instead, we have a movie that can't help but tidy up after itself, taking its title perhaps a touch too seriously.

—Jesse Hassenger filmcritic.com
5
...writer-director Kirk Jones never allows us to feel anything for ourselves. He might as well be turning out Hallmark cards.

—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
5
...a comic drama that turns cloying.

—Leah Rozen People
5
For those wanting to wallow in syrupy holiday weepies, prime your tear ducts and put the family on speed-dial--you'll appreciate Fine's inevitable bathos.

—Matt Stevens E!
4
...a schmaltzy Americanization of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 Italian drama.

—Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club
3
The film's superficially handsome, high-definition widescreen frame is the equivalent of a Godiva box holding stale chocolates...

—Bill Weber Slant Magazine
3
...a low point in De Niro's career.

—Robert Wilonsky Village Voice
3
...a calculatedly soppy, seasonally phony Americanized remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 Stanno Tutti Bene...

—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly

ReelzChannel.com, December 04, 2009

This is feel-good Christmas entertainment that looks to be about as bland and non-threatening as its title. Is Robert De Niro just biding time until next summer's Little Fockers?

"All that could redeem this thoroughly foreseeable unfolding [story] would be colorful characters and good acting. Everybody's Fine comes close, but not close enough."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"Though a bit too artful to merit the pejorative 'tearjerker' label, the film is rigorously streamlined to deliver a good emotional uppercut by the end, and purely on the strength of its craft, it connects. But aside from an atypically mannered Robert De Niro, there's very little new to see along the way."
— Andrew Barker, Variety

"...a low point in De Niro's career."
— Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice

"...a calculatedly soppy, seasonally phony Americanized remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 Stanno Tutti Bene..."
— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"The film's superficially handsome, high-definition widescreen frame is the equivalent of a Godiva box holding stale chocolates..."
— Bill Weber, Slant Magazine

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