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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:46
Rotten:53
Average Rating:5.3/10
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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Dec 4, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $8,855,646
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
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Not a reinvention of the wheel, but this sensitively told remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's same-named 1991 Italian film slots in respectably as the holiday season's obligatory commercial drama of familial reconciliation.
Writer-director Kirk Jones makes an unhealthy number of unwise decisions, from pacing to casting to his mise en scene selections.
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.
De Niro returns from the cinematic wilderness in "Everybody's Fine."
A bittersweet story of family loss and lies by omission, 'Everybody's Fine' isn't so much a laugh fest as a dramedy.
It's schmaltzy and a tad melodramatic, but it doesn't pander, gently plucking our heartstrings when it could have hammered away.
Is it anything special? No, not really. But it's an agreeable and even touching little snapshot of family life.
Top Critic... earnest piffle ...
hough Bobby won't make you forget Marcello Mastroianni's Matteo Scuro, the once-great thespian doesn't coast here in his understated performance as widower Frank Goode.
A cynic may consider "Everybody's Fine" schmaltzy hogwash; others may want to call or write their fathers just to remind them that they are loved and not forgotten.
Robert De Niro if fine but everyone else isn't and neither is the movie.
Everybody's fine. So is this movie. Fine and forgettable.
...we've now taken a trip to the dysfunctional family well one time too many.
I didn’t feel like I was watching characters who were related to each other. Every scene they are in, I felt like I was watching movie stars meeting each other for the first time.
Top CriticMore critics hated Everybody's Fine than loved it, by a long shot. They called it sappy, cliché and trite. Maybe their families alienated them after years of spoiling the ending to movies, and now they're taking it out on the rest of us.
What could have been a slight, even cloying tale of miscommunications, becomes in De Niro's hands a genuinely heart-wrenching story of people's good intentions gone awry
Yes, it's your typical movie about family relations at holiday time. But, DeNiro is great and well worth the price of a ticket. Paul Chambers, CNN.
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.
DeNiro's performance makes this worth a view.
Begins as merely intolerable and ends up borderline-reprehensible.
December 03, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Everybody's Fine Is Just OK
This week at the movies, we've got a fractured family (Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore); a sibling rivalry (Brothers, starring Natalie Portman and... More...
October 25, 2009:
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September 17, 2009:
Trailer Bulletin: Everyone's Fine
Robert De Niro plays a widower trying to reconnect with his kids in "Everyone's Fine," a Miramax feature co-starring Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell. Watch the... More...
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