Everybody's Fine
Everybody's Fine
"Everybody's Fine", a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's "Stanno Tutti Bene," follows a widower (Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro) who embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with each of his grown children only to discover that their lives are far from picture perfect. At the heart of "Everybody's Fine" is the theme of family and physical and emotional distances traveled to bring the members back together. Kirk Jones ("Waking Ned Devine") directs.
2.6 out of 5 based on 9 reviews
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| Certificate |
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| Genre |
Drama |
| Director |
Kirk Jones |
| Cast |
Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell Robert De Niro |
| Studio |
Walt Disney UK |
| Release Date |
February 2010 |
| Running Time |
100 mins |
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"Everybody's Fine", a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's "Stanno Tutti Bene," follows a widower (Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro) who embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with each of his grown children only to discover that their lives are far from picture perfect. At the heart of "Everybody's Fine" is the theme of family and physical and emotional distances traveled to bring the members back together. Kirk Jones ("Waking Ned Devine") directs.
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
"De Niro is not at his best playing nice - in fact, he's boring and so is the film."
25/02/2010
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
"It is a refreshingly open, untricksy performance from De Niro, and very possibly the harbinger of an excellent late period for him as an actor. As for the film, well … "fine" is what can reasonably be said."
25/02/2010
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The Independent on Sunday
Demetrios Matheou
"If Everybody's Fine is a tad too understated, and in need of the light touch of director Kirk Jones's earlier features Waking Ned and Nanny McPhee, it's nevertheless a quietly affecting piece. And worthwhile for the sight of Johnny Boy/ Travis Bickle/Jake LaMotta doing the household chores and pumping up the inflatable pool."
28/02/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
David Gritten
"No question, this is an old-fashioned story, with revelations, tears shed and life lessons learned. Its tone is decidedly gentle and conservative, yet Everybody’s Fine makes subtle points about generational conflicts and the getting of wisdom. Its essential niceness should not be discounted; niceness is a rare commodity in films today."
25/02/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
"There's no apparent political or social thrust, just a family tale of false ambition, with Robert De Niro's father a victim of the American Dream. Unfortunately he's a tedious fellow, boring everyone with talk of his emblematic job making telephone wire. His taste is revealed in the opening shot in his garden: a reproduction of the Manneken Pis urinating into a goldfish pond."
28/02/2010
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The Times
Kevin Maher
"Unfortunately, Kirk Jones (Waking Ned) trundles through this one, piling soppy flashbacks and weepy fantasy sequences into places where real drama should have been. A wasted opportunity."
27/02/2010
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
"Lessons that might have been learnt gently and poignantly are instead rammed home in an apocalypse of weepiness."
28/02/2010
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The Independent
John Walsh
"A weepie that wholly fails to make you weep."
26/02/2010
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The New York Times
Stephen Holden
"If the film weren’t so mechanically contrived — you can feel its rusty machinery cranking away — Mr. De Niro might have lent Frank a dimension that transcended the cliché of a well-meaning but clueless control freak whose fantasies of having raised perfect children are methodically dashed. But Mr. De Niro doesn’t bring much to the role beyond a seriocomic affability that is a toned-down version of his character Jack Byrnes from “Meet the Parents.”"
04/12/2009
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