Obvious Child R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 7, 2014
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jenny Slate, Gaby Hoffmann, Jake Lacy & David Cross | |
Performer: | Gabe Liedman, Richard Kind & Polly Draper | |
Directed by | Gillian Robespierre | |
Screenwriting by | Gillian Robespierre | |
Composition by | Chris Bordeaux | |
Director of Photography: | Chris Teague |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
Obvious Child is one of the most empathy-inducing, genuine films featuring a cast of women tackling a women's issue ever made. Period.
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The Reader (Omaha, NE)
[A] small, strong debut feature....[The film] takes its energy from the startlingly funny and poignant performance of its star, Jenny Slate.
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 4/5 --
Robespierre has fashioned an assertion of female worth within the confines of mainstream cinema. This is primarily accomplished through the film's sharp, acerbic dialogue and some beautifully rendered characters.
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CineVue
Obvious Child is a quiet movie, in a way; no one needs saving, and everyone's going to be ok. But it feels like a big film all the same.
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Eugene Weekly (OR)
Robespierre deserves credit for illustrating the realities of abortion with sensitivity and candour…
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/5 --
Robespierre is at her most assured in her handling of Donna's stand-up act: this is a rare example of a film about a creative type in which the process of transforming life into art is shown plausibly and in some detail.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 4/5 --
Somehow it all still works. Obvious Child is like one of those kid's paintings where the riot of irreconcilable elements is unified by the charm and madness of a skilled naivety.
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Financial Times
Product Description:
Adapted from Gillian Robespierre's own short film of the same name, OBVIOUS CHILD stars Jenny Slate as Donna Stern, an aspiring standup comic in her late twenties who regularly performs at a Brooklyn bar on open-mic nights when there's no cover charge. As the story opens, Donna gets dumped by her boyfriend (supposedly for talking about their relationship too much in her act) and loses her day job at a bookstore that's being evicted by the owner of the building. Not long after, during a night of epic drinking, she meets Max (Jake Lacy). The two hit it off and enjoy a drunken one-night stand, which Donna slinks away from in the morning. eeks later, Donna discovers she's pregnant. Knowing she's in no way ready to be a mother, she decides to have an abortion. She tries repeatedly to tell Max what is happening, but keeps chickening out -- in part because he's such a nice guy.
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- Sales Rank: 60,692
- UPC: 031398200680
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