Everybodys Fine

  • 2010


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47 % Rotten
$ 3 Million
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Positive Reviews 59
Negative reviews 30
Average Rating 3.1/5
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3.0
Even more than the remake that it is, Everybodys Fine plays like a homogenized, Hallmark Channel version of About Schmidt, with all the rough edges sh .. Av Club
3.0
As for the artist son in New York City, jeez, hes nowhere to be found. EW
3.1
There are many things he does better than anyone else alive, but playing nice isnt one of them. Rogerebert
4.5
The film is rigorously streamlined to deliver a good emotional uppercut by the end, and purely on the strength of its craft, it connects. Variety
2.0
Forget Hollywood remakes; this is one film I(TM)d like to see reworked by an arthouse director and a pack of actors with smaller names and bigger rese .. Time Out
1.3
In his career debasement race against Al Pacino, must Robert De Niro inflict a moribund genre botch like Everybodys Fine on the public just in time to ..
3.8
Everybody should see Everybodys Fine. But one piece of advice: Phone home first.
1.5
David isnt home, however, and doesnt return even after Frank spends the night waiting on his front stoop.
2.0
It wastes a good cast and a potentially moving premise by hammering the sentimentality home so relentlessly that the Paul McCartney tune that plays ov .. E Film Critic
3.0
Its essential niceness should not be discounted; niceness is a rare commodity in films today. Telegraph
3.8
Now comes this American version, which turns out to be the exception, an American remake thats better than the European original. San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
De Niro does quietly affecting work, but he can(TM)t elevate a pat Family Rediscovering Each Other drama into anything much above afternoon TV movie f ..
2.5
Really, its a movie for people unwilling to think too hard about what theyre watching, and ignore an unsatisfying story in exchange for blunt emotiona .. Cinema Blend
4.0
Everybodys Fine a more subtle film than its advertising indicates works because it has a feel for little things. Ny Daily News
2.5
If nothing else (and there aint much else), Everybodys Fine does prove one thing: Even an actor with the gifts of Robert De Niro cant make bland inter .. The Globe And Mail
3.8
De Niro plays his character completely contained, afraid to brim or overflow with emotion. The more he pulls back, the more he pulls in the audience. Philly
2.0
Every parent in the theater will be cursing director Kirk Jones as they honk their way through several dollars worth of Kleenex. Philly
3.0
Frank thinks hes the conductor of an orchestra but finds him in rehearsal playing percussion. Spirituality And Practice
3.0
As obvious and contrived as the original... Robert De Niro in one of the regular guy roles he occasionally takes on only to prove that he isnt suited .. One Guys Opinion
3.8
Everybodys Fine doesnt strike as forceful an emotional chord as the original. ReelViews
3.0
Everybodys Fine thinks its a heartwarming Christmas entry about family, but its really an unnecessary remake with a name cast floundering about under ..
3.1
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 r .. Usa Today
3.1
The relentlessly earnest vibe coupled with a finale thats admittedly quite touching ultimately prevents Captain Abu Raed from becoming the all out bor .. Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Everything seems fine, at first, but Frank notices that Jack doesnt respect Jeff at all and everyone makes excuses for not sticking around, so Frank i .. Lariat
4.5
Robert senses his dad isnt pleased with the discovery, while Frank begins to believe his kids might not be telling him the truth, especially when Robe .. Screen It
2.0
De Niro, while initially expressionless, gives the film a heart. Barrymore and Beckinsale stay one dimensionally cute. A weepie that wholly fails to m .. Independent
2.5
One problem is that we are told things Frank doesnt know, mainly the explanation behind Davids disappearance, which diffuses the films sense of perspe .. Shadows On The Wall
0.5
Franks essential irony his inability to communicate on top of his presumption that he communicates well is italicized repeatedly in Everybodys Fine. Pop Matters
3.0
A beautifully shot drama thats worth seeing for the performances, but it never quite delivers the required emotional punch. View London
4.5
Low key family drama showcases a different side of star Robert De Niro. Film Journal International ..
2.5
The movie feels tentative and strained. Its one of the bigger cinematic disappointments of late. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.0
Everybodys Fine is a fitting title. The movie may well be fine. But it could have been a lot better. Az Central
2.5
But theres something darker roiling untapped beneath this material. Boston
2.5
Once you realize where all this has to go, watching the movie becomes a matter of marking time to get to the warmly desired closing credits. Mountain X
4.5
The drama in how the lives of the kids are not fine is all deceptively low key this is no screeching, sappy melodrama but a powerfully affecting story ..
3.8
Sign Up Now YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN.. So its disappointing when the last reel goes off the rails with a sappy home for the holidays endgame. Toronto Star
3.0
Under the helm and pen of Kirk Jones what was a sensitive and touching dramedy in Tornatores 1990 film has become conventional, predictable and schmal .. Emanuellevy
3.0
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 f .. Guardian
0.5
De Niro is not at his best playing nice in fact, hes boring and so is the film. Actually, its worse than that. Its pseudoredemptive tosh. Daily Mail
2.0
For no good reason, British director Kirk Jones overplays the sentiment, but the greater mystery here is how a great and experienced actor like De Nir .. Flim List
3.5
I dont know what it is with you kids, Frank plaintively complains. Susang Ranger
2.5
Its the kind of viewing experience that will only instill dread in the heart of any late middle aged person who doesnt already have a warm, loving fam .. Movies
3.8
For his film adaptation of Maury Yestons stage musical Nine director/co choreographer Rob Marshall predictably brings a lot of diverting style razzle .. Mr Brown Movies
2.0
Everybodys Fine is just a rote journey from one tidy little domestic dramedy to the next, made even more treacly by Franks tendency to imagine each ki .. Las Vegas Weekly
2.0
A low key family drama that leaves no clich safe in its quest to make everyone weep buckets. The best to hope for is that it may persuade you to recon .. Total Film
4.0
And isnt that what good art should do This may not be the most uplifting film one could see this holiday season but it is one of the more thoughtful o .. Hollywood
3.0
But De Niros naturalistic performance is what captures your imagination. Coles Mithey
3.8
De Niro digs into Frank with relish without overplaying his hand. Movie Freak
3.8
Jones has a strong enough story and cast but his direction isnt nearly as impressive.
3.5
Americanized remakes of foreign hits often miss what made those properties work in the first place, but Jones, DeNiro and company know less is more in .. Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
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 findi .. E Online
15.0
As for DeNiro, its hard to say if hes lost interest in acting or simply in the parts that are available to him as hes gotten older. Maki At The Movies
3.0
The predictable wrapup comes too late with too little impact to snap us out of the depression induced by Jones exercise in disillusionment. Varia Gate
2.0
Joness movie is keen to make it to the emotional payoff, yet its build up doesnt really earn the right to tug at the heartstrings. Digital Spy
2.5
As depicted in the film, though, Frank doesnt come off as any more wildly overbearing than the average father. Dustin Put Man
4.5
The ironically titled Everybodys Fine, a remake of the whimsical Italian weepie, boasts tenderly crafted geriatric redemption, along with seasoned act .. News Blaze
4.5
One of the few Robert De Niro roles in recent memory that doesnt equate acting with histrionics...one of the quietest performances of his career, yet .. Hollywood And Fine
2.0
Disappointment that it isnt what a De Niro movie used to be powerful, challenging and edgy. Now his movies are weak and clichd with a mushy centre. The Sun
4.0
What could have been a slight, even cloying tale of miscommunications, becomes in De Niros hands a genuinely heart wrenching story of peoples good int .. Killer Movie Reviews
3.0
Everybodys Fine eventually unplugs the waterworks in the finale, but its an earned response within a tender, loving picture thats fascinatingly honest .. Brian Or Ndorf
3.1
Rather, hes a simple percussionist whose musical promise seems to have gone largely unfulfilled.
3.1
So its no great surprise that no one understands what anyone is saying. Js Online
2.0
Crisply shot and framed with care, it(TM)s certainly easy on the eye. But a script that didn(TM)t take life so seriously would have left everybody fee .. Sky
4.5
The film echoes Alexander Paynes About Schmidt (2002), and its a sad indictment that Hollywood hasnt explored mature age emotions in any great depth f .. Sbs
2.0
It(TM)s a little like About Schmidt minus the sly wit, subtlety and directorial flair. Entertainment Times Online ..
2.0
Tapping into parental abandonment issues, its an occasionally touching, if frustratingly one note drama played, relentlessly, on a tinkly sad piano. Metro
1.5
Joness efforts to re tool the Italian original for an American audience prove disappointing. The comedy is broader, the dramatic crises have been swee .. What So
1.0
Its a manipulative guiltfest that drags its feet more sluggishly than its elderly protagonist. Or Lando Weekly
2.0
Its not that De Niro isnt capable in Everybodys Fine, its just that Frank isnt a challenging role. Tony Mack
2.5
Franks joy about his childrens successes is held captive in the mans small suitcase. Review Express
4.0
But more than anything else, this really is a powerful, elegiac ode to America: The Place Where Nobody Feels At Home. Fan The Fire Magazine
4.0
Everybodys 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 kno .. Tri City Herald
2.5
a movie that cant help but tidy up after itself, taking its title perhaps a touch too seriously. Filmcritic.com
4.5
His fourth title track for a film, can Oscar nod again on Sir Paul One can only hope as it doesnt get any finer than this.
2.5
hough Bobby wont make you forget Marcello Mastroiannis Matteo Scuro, the once great thespian doesnt coast here in his understated performance as widow .. Boston Phoenix
2.0
Begins as merely intolerable and ends up borderline reprehensible. Nicks Chager
2.5
Awkward story telling gets in the way, with dream sequences that dont work and a mild revelation that, everybodys fine, despite some baggage. The Scorecard Review
2.0
Theres no challenge to this material, no real emotional pull, its one of those films that simply rolls by until its right from the beginning predictab .. Detroit News
2.0
Is it anything special No, not really. But its an agreeable and even touching little snapshot of family life. Film.com
3.8
De Niro returns from the cinematic wilderness in Everybodys Fine. Illinois Times
3.5
Holiday movies should make you appreciate family, and the film, which explores lies that are meant to protect, is a warm hearted ode to real connectio .. Metromix.com
5.0
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1.5
The fact that he doesnt carry a cell phone is beyond reason in this day and age. Critics Notebook
2.0
The gag inducing melodrama Everybodys Fine hails from Kirk Jones, whose phone calls, kisses and hugs no longer will be returned the moment this baby h .. Week In Rewind
3.0
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 easil .. Movie Mom
3.1
Contains an honest, thoughtful, relatively unmannered De Niro performance... Gomemphis
2.0
But they are the sad exceptions in this slick and fraudulent pageant of cheap sentimentality. ( Blog Oregonlive
2.5
Americans and their perverse obsession with happy endings. Especially during the holidays. Ba Humbug! Brandon Fibbs
3.0
Mushier than a half chewed rusk. And while that doesnt necessarily make it a bad movie, it DOES make it a syrupy one with enough hugging and learning .. News Of The World
3.5
A simple story told in a very unique way. I will never think of telephone wires the same ever again.
4.5
De Niro steals the show with a subtle, charismatic and moving performance. Daily Record
3.1
A movie with plenty of meaning and emotion, but gets too coy with some of the details and surprises. Dc5
0.5
Its mushy, fake and full of hopelessly silly feelgood sentiment. Nobody could transcend this, not even De Niro nor Sam Rockwell, the best of the suppo .. This Is London
3.1
He thought Robert (Sam Rockwell) was a big time conductor; hes a small time percussionist. Washington Times
2.5
Final Thought: Someone needs to make a TV show thats just 60 minutes of Robert DeNiro entertaining babies. Ultra Culture
1.5
Joness efforts to re tool the Italian original for an American audience prove disappointing. The comedy is broader, the dramatic crises have been swee .. Movie Talk
1.5
A film with a few inspired moments mostly towards the end sprinkled in with a whole lot of awkward, even mean, portions. The result is a major disappo .. Movie Views
2.0
The recipes gone wrong with this annual Hollywood chestnut: No spice No fun Cant we exchange this for something that we might enjoy a bit more
4.5
Tornatore offered us brutal truths; Jones sells us a greeting card. Ifc
3.8
Its a relief to see Robert De Niro giving an honest, effective starring performance in a project that does not stink and that, in fact, rises to a res .. Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
3.0
Not a reinvention of the wheel, but this sensitively told remake of Giuseppe Tornatores same named 1991 Italian film slots in respectably as the holid .. Shared Darkness
2.5
Writer director Kirk Jones makes an unhealthy number of unwise decisions, from pacing to casting to his mise en scene selections.
3.2
To dismiss Everybodys Fine as clichd holiday schmaltz is to stereotype without appreciating the finer details. Clearly working within an established g .. Ask Men
4.5
A recently widowed retiree embarks on a cross country journey to visit each of his children, expecting to find them as happy and successful as their s ..



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