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:82
Fresh:37
Rotten:45
Average Rating:5.2/10
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
Another actor might have greedily milked the story's pathos quotient (believe me, there are plenty of opportunities). But De Niro hangs back, and the approach works.
12/03/09
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
It's all so much raging bull.
12/02/09
What's finest about Everybody's Fine is to watch a good fella groping hopefully toward old age.
12/03/09
De Niro brings jolts of depth and feeling to a treacly premise. An amazing flashback scene pits a recalcitrant De Niro against a group of needy child actors who cannot match his profundity.
12/02/09
De Niro offers a master class of mannered, minimalist acting.
12/02/09
In his career-debasement race against Al Pacino, must Robert De Niro inflict a moribund genre botch like Everybody's Fine on the public just in time to grinch us up for Christmas?
11/30/09
A movie with plenty of meaning and emotion, but gets too coy with some of the details and surprises.
12/04/09
The movie feels tentative and strained. It's one of the bigger cinematic disappointments of late.
12/03/09
There’s some small pleasure in watching one of the great screen performers play such a recognizably fragile type, though De Niro and writer-director Kirk Jones shamelessly milk the situation for sentiment.
12/02/09
Every parent in the theater will be cursing director Kirk Jones as they honk their way through several dollars worth of Kleenex.
12/03/09
As obvious and contrived as the original...[with] Robert De Niro in one of the 'regular guy' roles he occasionally takes on--only to prove that he isn't suited to them.
12/03/09
It’s a manipulative guiltfest that drags its feet more sluggishly than its elderly protagonist.
12/03/09
Rockwell and Barrymore share a few involving moments with De Niro, but just as Frank has trouble cracking the kids' facades, the film has trouble finding depth in a pat, predictable script.
12/03/09
It wastes a good cast and a potentially moving premise by hammering the sentimentality home so relentlessly that the Paul McCartney tune that plays over the end credits comes across as tough as nails by comparison.
12/03/09
Based on Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 film "Stanno tutti bene," writer/director Kirk Jones fulfills the material's dramatic demands without putting too fine a point on Frank's emotional awakening. But it's De Niro's naturalistic performance that captures you
11/26/09
The gag-inducing melodrama "Everybody's Fine" hails from Kirk Jones, whose phone calls, kisses and hugs no longer will be returned the moment this baby hits theaters.
12/04/09
To dismiss Everybody's Fine as clichéd holiday schmaltz is to stereotype without appreciating the finer details. Clearly working within an established genre without the gall to overstep his boundaries, Jones elevates the material by showing conside
12/03/09
Written and directed by British director Kirk Jones with guidance, apparently, from Dr. Phil...
12/02/09
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