Any Day Now Reviews

"Any Day Now" has so many ways to break your heart that it seems less a question whether Travis Fine's indie drama will do it, but how.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A melodramatic but sincere film overflowing with both compassion and exasperation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A warmly captured, nicely acted period piece social-issue drama that cycles through familiar territory but also deftly sidesteps conventional wisdom about where it may end up.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

There's joy in the small moments and fierce, humanist dignity in Alan Cumming's performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The best thing about "Any Day Now" is how unpreachy it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This poignant if overly sentimental twist on the child-custody drama transcends some of its melodramatic trappings.

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This gay custody-battle drama beautifully delivers on every level, especially emotionally.

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Though set in 1979 West Hollywood, its themes echo loudly in today's courtrooms as well through compelling characters and an unrelenting narrative.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

What might have been a typical exercise in socially conscious messaging [becomes] a...touching human drama.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Drama about parenting, discrimination is moving but clunky.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Two gay men try to adopt a teenager no one else wants

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Sweet but ultimately heart-wrenching. (Includes interview with star Garret Dillahunt.)

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Gets its point across, and its sad drama. And it spotlights a marvelous performance by Alan Cumming.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Cumming is wonderful, and you know something? Trying a little understanding sure doesn't hurt.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

There's no denying the power of Cumming, Leyva and Dillahunt's performances, nor the tragedy and injustice of the situation.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Cumming is the linchpin, and the actor does an exceptional job of moving across the vast galaxy of universal emotions about partners and parenthood. He takes us to the heart of the matter in ways that matter most.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

An outraged, unblinking depiction of institutionalized homophobia three decades ago, when the prevailing court opinion in adoption cases was that exposing a child to a homosexual environment was harmful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

It would take a heart of stone - or zero tolerance for soap - to resist Any Day Now, a full-throttle weepie about a West Hollywood gay couple trying to adopt a neglected boy with Down syndrome.

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The script seems almost religiously adverse to Hallmark-style melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Any Day Now, about a gay couple in '70s LA trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome, has movie-of-the-week melodrama written all over it. But it rises above the saccharin thanks to strong performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5