The film’s finale is so generically feel-good that it’s hard to feel much of anything watching it.
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11/05/09
Everybody's Fine (2009)
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Reviews Counted:84
Fresh:39
Rotten:45
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: A calm, charismatic performance from Robert De Niro nearly saves the movie, but ultimately, Everybody's Fine has the look and feel of a stereotypical Christmas dramedy.
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Robert De Niro leads a stellar cast in this insightful dramedy starring Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell. A remake of the Italian film STANNO TUTTI BENE, EVERYBODY’S FINE features... [More]
Starring: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell
Director: Kirk Jones
Reviews for Everybody's Fine
What could have been a slight, even cloying tale of miscommunications, becomes in De Niro's hands a genuinely heart-wrenching story of people's good intentions gone awry
12/06/09
Yes, it's your typical movie about family relations at holiday time. But, DeNiro is great and well worth the price of a ticket. Paul Chambers, CNN.
12/06/09
Everybody's Fine is a holiday flick about a man in crisis. It quietly wonders how someone can know his children for 30 or more years and not really know a thing about them.
12/05/09
DeNiro's performance makes this worth a view.
12/05/09
Begins as merely intolerable and ends up borderline-reprehensible.
12/04/09
A phony premise made tolerable only by the efforts of a strong cast.
12/04/09
Frank's essential irony -- his inability to communicate on top of his presumption that he communicates well -- is italicized repeatedly in Everybody's Fine.
12/04/09
The simple, direct mode of the telephone lines Frank covered so carefully has splintered into a dozen ways of staying in touch, ways that can as easily be frustrating.
12/04/09
Promising start, but it unravels with an ill-advised confrontation scene and an ending that rings false.
12/04/09
With that foundation and such a stellar cast, it's tough to see how this American remake could be so lacklustre -- but it is.
12/04/09
If nothing else (and there ain't much else), Everybody's Fine does prove one thing: Even an actor with the gifts of Robert De Niro can't make bland interesting.
12/04/09
There's no challenge to this material, no real emotional pull, it's one of those films that simply rolls by until its right-from-the-beginning predictable ending.
12/04/09
This is sentimental but dramatically solid.
12/04/09
False to the core.
12/04/09
Top CriticA movie with plenty of meaning and emotion, but gets too coy with some of the details and surprises.
12/04/09
De Niro's dysfunctional family drama is touching but mature.
12/04/09
No feel-bad-feel-good film should be this chilly.
12/04/09
Contains an honest, thoughtful, relatively unmannered De Niro performance...
12/04/09
The recipe's gone wrong with this annual Hollywood chestnut: No spice? No fun? Can't we exchange this for something that we might enjoy a bit more?
12/04/09
Latest News for Everybody's Fine
December 03, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Everybody's Fine Is Just OK
This week at the movies, we've got a fractured family (Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore); a sibling rivalry (Brothers, starring Natalie Portman and... More...
October 25, 2009:
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September 17, 2009:
Trailer Bulletin: Everyone's Fine
Robert De Niro plays a widower trying to reconnect with his kids in "Everyone's Fine," a Miramax feature co-starring Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell. Watch the... More...
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