Firstborn
Jake Livingston had to grow up fast... because his mother didn't.
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 10, 2020
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Bayview Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Aik Karapetian |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The best things about Firstborn are the easy, natural performances of the actors.
New York Times
Rating: 2/4 --
The movie creates such an urgent situation, and fills it with such interesting characters, that when everything goes wrong at the end I felt more than disappointed, I felt cheated.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Director Michael Apted ("Coal Miner's Daughter") settles for a movie of pat moralism, a pamphleteer's parable of how drugs destroy families.
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Washington Post
Firstborn is the film we knew Apted had in him when we saw the care and craftsmanship in his Coal Miner's Daughter and Continental Divide. It's a find, and Collet's singular performance is its core.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 2.5/4 --
This flawed but interesting Freudian melodrama spends about 70 minutes making points and the last 30 minutes losing them.
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TV Guide
It might have worked if Apted were as adept at creating an emotional atmosphere as he is in his portraiture of the suburban milieu, but too many unshaped scenes and redundant dialogue passages take their toll.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: C- --
A heavy-handed suburban sitcom.
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- UPC: 012233531985
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