Driving Lessons (2006)
49 %
Reviews Counted: 72 Fresh: 35 Rotten:37 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus:
Though it has charm, Driving Lessons is a middling offering in the genre where the youngster coming of age meets a quirky senior who teaches valuable lessons about life.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 13, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: With his orange-colored bowl haircut and freckled cheeks, actor Rupert Grint (known by millions of pre-teens as Harry Potter's cinematic sidekick) is perfectly cast as Ben, an awkward teenage boy whose reticence almost trespasses into total muteness. After a lifetime of being reined in by... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Laura Linney, Rupert Grint, Julie Walters, Nicholas Farrell, Oliver Milburn
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They say that truth is stranger than fiction, but as we see in most autobiographical coming-of-age films, adolescent truth is just as boring as adolescent fiction.
09/18/07
The highlight here is most certainly Julie Walters, who hams it up royally, and does a fine job of making her role as an aging actress more than just a cartoon character.
07/02/07
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06/16/07
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A warmly funny coming of age story as the ultra conservative clashes with the unconventional in a confluence of the unexpected
06/02/07
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05/12/07
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Típica besteira de cinema independente que se julga mais inteligente e observadora do que é na realidade. O surpreendente é perceber que, enquanto Walters e Linney apelam para caricaturas, o jovem Grint oferece uma atuação sólida e envolvente.
04/13/07
Too many alcoholic outbursts and pitiful breakdowns wear down your patience.
03/01/07
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01/27/07
The film is anchored by Walter's brilliant performance. She has a field day with this rambunctious, pampered yet terribly insecure woman. Grint is often reduced to playing straight man, but his reactions are priceless and the fact that he and Walters have
01/11/07
Writer-director Jeremy Brock has backloaded much of the hero's family conflict into the final scenes, which collapse under the weight.
12/18/06
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The characterizations and comic situations both seem forced and labored.
12/15/06
Driving Lessons is a poignant miniature that offers [Julie] Walters a chance to be typically wonderful — saucy but deep — and [Rupert] Grint to stretch quite commendably.
12/08/06
Will be remembered as the movie in which we got to see Ron Weasley utter the s-word and the f-word (numerous times); drink wine; and hook up with a Scottish hottie who introduces him to Nick Drake and sex (in that order).
12/08/06
Walters is alternately zany and poignant, with Grint the perfect foil, a bemused, confused innocent who only wants to do good.
12/07/06
Depressingly symptomatic of the kind of film that constitutes 'art house cinema' these days.
11/16/06
For his feature directorial debut, screenwriter Jeremy Brock ("Mrs. Brown") has chosen from a chapter of his own life to tell a story that is as charming and eccentric as it is unsurprising and implausible.
11/14/06
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