Family Law has a sweet sense of how families try to interact and connect... There's nothing big about this film but it's filled with small joys and insights.
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08/18/07
Family Law (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 30
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus: What Family Law lacks in overt drama and conflict, it more than makes us with warm performances and smart, sharp dialogue.
Theatrical Release:Dec 6, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Ariel Perelman is an attorney, like his father. And, because it is customary in Argentina to do so, the people refer to them both as Dr Perelman--regardless of whether they mean the father or the... [More]
Starring: Adriana Aizemberg, Damian Dreizik, Daniel Hendler, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Director: Daniel Burman
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Reviews for Family Law
It's a nice film, offering a few smiles and very likable performances. It could stand to have its themes fleshed out a little more, though.
06/02/07
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05/12/07
Top CriticFull of subtle dark humor that won't make you bend with laughter but certainly may cause you to giggle.
03/16/07
...a charming and low-key effort from Argentina which was their contender for the foreign language Oscar, though it didn't get nominated.
03/16/07
Burman based this comedy-drama on his experiences as a new father, and the results are warmly observational but slightly navel-gazing.
03/09/07
Drastically overplotted and overwritten and could have used some editing to make it a tighter, more modest character piece.
03/08/07
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02/24/07
Top CriticA subtly perceptive charmer that was Argentina's entry for a best foreign film Oscar and might have been nominated in a less competitive year.
02/23/07
Top CriticThe lessons of this slight human comedy are not groundbreaking, but they do strike a warmly universal chord.
02/23/07
Top CriticEvery movie is made up of certain nuts and bolts, and in Family Law they seem, quite frankly, a little loose.
02/16/07
This observant little movie does delicately touch on those unspoken assumptions that animate so many filial relationships. And the wry, soft-spoken tone is a welcome one amid the dysfunctional burlesques Hollywood routinely extrudes.
02/15/07
Top CriticWith its slack plotting, the film itself feels as aimless as its main character.
02/03/07
Family Law offers a sweet, understated perspective on the psychological dance of wariness, hope and acceptance that occurs between many a father and son.
01/26/07
Family Law [is] one of the best examinations of [fathers and sons] ever committed to celluloid.
12/30/06
This delicate, bittersweet comedy prepares you for an eruption of high drama that never arrives.
12/30/06
Top CriticA deft, witty and emotionally rewarding study of a thirtysomething man in his roles as father and son.
12/29/06
Top CriticParticularly good at the tiny details that become recognition points in daily patterns.
12/29/06
Top Critic[Director Daniel] Burman's beguiling tribute to his Jewish father -- or, for all I know, the one he wishes he had -- is warm and deep enough to give humanism a good name.
12/29/06
Top CriticA pleasant, crisply paced look at a wary character.
12/29/06
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