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Fred Won't Move Out (2012)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2

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Average Rating: 1.2/5
User Ratings: 83

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With levity and sadness, two grown children and their aging parents struggle with the decision whether the older generation should stay in the house where they have lived for fifty years. Shot in the house where the director's parents lived for close to fifty years shortly after they moved out, the film's semi-autobiographical story is memorably acted by a small ensemble cast led by Elliott Gould. Shot in sequence in three weeks with a heady mix of improvisational work by both author Richard

Unrated,

Drama

Richard Ledes

Jun 13, 2013

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It has a great many shots of trees, leaves and insects and some story gaps.

October 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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There is recognizable pain throughout Ledes' film. Yet it never pushes through to anything beyond a surface portrait.

September 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
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This carefully observed slice of life is dragged down by the dreary and distracting hand-held camerawork.

September 21, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Post
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Except for a subplot about a missing cat that suggests that Fred may be considerably dottier than he appears, the movie gets almost everything right about the uncomfortable moment when grown children are forced to be their parents' parents.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Mostly, it captures how old age decimates even the people who don't suffer from it.

September 18, 2012 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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This thoughtful but exceedingly modest miniature will be best nursed within the festival circuit.

June 26, 2012 Full Review Source: Variety
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Audience Reviews for Fred Won't Move Out

Ugh! The positive reviews you read from critics must be for another film. This film was dreary from its hand-held camera work, to its numerous shots of trees, flowers & insects. The script is poor and it must have been adapted from a play. But it is boring and lifeless.
Stay away and go to your dentist instead. You will "enjoy" that more.
October 23, 2012
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  • Fred (UK)
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