How About You (2008)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:16
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Though it relies on a cliched storyline and stock characters, How About You gets winning performances from Vanessa Redgrave and Imelda Staunton.
Theatrical Release:Nov 14, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: How about You is adapted from a short story by famed author Maeve Binchy, Ireland’s most widely read and internationally successful writer of popular fiction. With her trademark wit, charm and... [More]
Starring: Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Fricker, Imelda Staunton
Director: Anthony Byrne
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Reviews for How About You
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 3/4 |
While the movie is rather predictable and has a few moments that are just too heartwarming, there are scenes that are both moving and humorous. Full Review |
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 C |
Amiable but slight. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
How About You is based on a Maeve Binchy story about the residents of an Irish retirement home. Full Review |
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3/4 |
I like Dublin in December, how about you? Full Review |
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3/5 |
How four angry, irritated, and frustrated senior citizens in a residential home are introduced to another way of being that proves to be transformative. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Never underestimate the value of slight but charming flicks like Anthony Bryne's How About You. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Anthony Byrne's lazy drama is insulting to just about everyone, including Maeve Binchy, who wrote the short story on which it was based. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A good scolding and a toke on a joint: that’s all it takes to turn the curmudgeonly old folks in How About You into goofy pussycats. Full Review |
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The latest in a long line of films featuring elderly folk as amusingly dotty old broads and bastards. Full Review |
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7.5/10 |
The material is familiar way past the point of cliche, but these folks are thoroughbreds — and they, if not the material, are irresistible. Full Review |
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Brings together a cast strutting their stuff, not as the dotage of second childhood but in the happiness of being alive at whatever age. Full Review |
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C- |
Nothing in How About You is the least bit surprising; the film hits its marks with dreary precision. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Redgrave, O'Hara, Ackland, Fricker, and Staunton tear into their parts as though the Academy is still dispensing awards like a gumball machine to any actor who admits that old people can be bastards. Full Review |
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2/6 |
Not even Vanessa Redgrave and Imelda Staunton can elicit a gasp out of the wheezing script. Full Review |
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C+ |
As the reigning inhabitant, Redgrave adopts the swanning gestures of Maggie Smith in this mild adaptation of a Maeve Binchy story. Other drama queens enjoying the opportunity to screech include Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker, and Joss Ackland. Full Review |
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Based on a short story by the great Irish writer Maeve Binchy, the film has structure, resonance and a welcome respect for well-delineated characters, beautifully observed by a distinguished cast. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Tackling the edgy topic of old age with extraordinary empathy and a veteran cast, it's an irreverent, sweetly exuberant exploration of loss - in all of its ramifications. Full Review |
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7/10 |
There is room for a simple, feel-good story in the holiday season and HOW ABOUT YOU fills the bill nicely. A good ensemble cast brings this adaptation of a Maeve Binchy short story to its amiable if predictable end. Full Review |
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Teeming with tremendous depth of feeling inhabiting these sassy seasoned seniors, and tempered with lifelong wisdom whether on or off screen, that declares in no uncertain terms, get used to it. Full Review |
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May 29, 2009:
Teeming with tremendous depth of feeling inhabiting these sassy seasoned seniors, and tempered with lifelong wisdom whether on or off screen, that declares in no uncertain terms, get used to it. 
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May 03, 2009:
Teeming with tremendous depth of feeling inhabiting these sassy seasoned seniors, and tempered with lifelong wisdom whether on or off screen, that declares in no uncertain terms, get used to it.
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October 29, 2008:
Teeming with tremendous depth of feeling inhabiting these sassy seasoned seniors, and tempered with lifelong wisdom whether on or off screen, that declares in no uncertain terms, get used to it.
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