Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (2012)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 47
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding produces many unintentional laughs with its absurdly contrived plot and cheery insistence that everything is just super.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 18
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding produces many unintentional laughs with its absurdly contrived plot and cheery insistence that everything is just super.
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Directed by two‐time Academy Award nominee Bruce Beresford, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding stars Academy Award winning Jane Fonda, two‐time Academy Award nominated Catherine Keener, international heartthrob Chace Crawford, and Sundance's "breakout star" Elizabeth Olsen. A comedy about an uptight New York City lawyer who takes her two spirited teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse in the countryside for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into
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Cast
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Jane Fonda
Grace -
Catherine Keener
Diane -
Elizabeth Olsen
Zoe -
Chace Crawford
Cole -
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jude -
Kyle MacLachlan
Mark -
Rosanna Arquette
Darcy -
Nat Wolff
Jake -
Joseph Dunn
Richard -
Ann Osmond
Cindy -
Teri Gibson
Elaine -
Robert Bowen, Jr.
Robert -
Joyce Van Patten
Mariam -
Maddie Corman
Carol -
Denise Burse
Angel -
Poorna Jagannathan
Mira -
Terry McKenna
Jasper -
Marissa O'Donnell
Tara -
Katharine McPhee
Sara -
Wayne Pyle
Party Guest Man -
Alison Ball
Party Guest Woman -
Laurent Rejto
Thumbs-Up Cyclist -
Edward Morgan
Finger Driver -
Kai Beck
Tara's Friend -
Dana Chaifetz
Astrologer -
Joe "Jaz" Scalfari
Nude Biker -
April Crisafulli
Tara's Mom -
Michael Patrick Burke
Film Festival Organizer -
Don Stitt
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All Critics (66) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (47)
Beresford directs without purpose or polish, and his mostly fine cast, which includes Kyle MacLachlan and Rosanna Arquette in bit parts, is wasted.
Top CriticPop songs, beautiful bucolic scenery and the joy of watching Jane Fonda fizz in a fun role that looks like a no-brainer are elements that a skilled director like Australia's polished Bruce Beresford blends with perfection.
There's a great movie to be made about the survivors of Woodstock Nation and their children. But in order to make that movie, you first have to respect the ideals of that generation enough to at least give them their due.
There is no casting decision or character nuance or plot turn too obvious to indulge.
What's so funny about "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding"? Not enough.
If nothing else, you must applaud Peace, Love & Misunderstanding for its cheery insistence that a lifetime of resentment can float away as easily as a helium-filled balloon.
Somewhere Alison Bechdel is screaming.
Three talented actresses, including Jane Fonda, are wasted in this disappointing serio-comedy.
About as surprising in its plot as a trip to McDonald's, but that doesn't keep it from being pretty satisfying on the cinematic comfort-food level.
The once divisive 'Hanoi Jane' is now a harmless hippie dispensing homegrown marijuana and homilies about love and 'transformation' in this cornball, clichéd and predictable yet agreeable and entertaining movie.
For a movie that professes to teach us to get past our insecurities and think more freely, it does so with astonishingly conventional storytelling tropes.
Hippies are now charming old eccentrics who exist mainly to teach the rest of us to stop and smell (or smoke) the roses.
Jane Fonda's hippy offers nothing but a chance for Catherine Keener's uptight New Yorker to bicker with. What a flat film.
Drug use and cliches mar unoriginal indie dramedy.
f Woodstock represented three days of love and peace, "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding" mostly takes up 96 minutes of your time, most who see will wish they could get back.
It's a bad sign when Jane Fonda has to work to pass for an old hippie.
Fonda, Keener and Olsen compose a dream team of multigenerational talent, but they, and this film, are underserved by characters in need of development and an idea in need of a story.
Good-natured, eager to please and harmless, but also contrived, trite and bland.
Not every movie is, or has to be, an Event. Sometimes all I ask of a film is that it offer a pleasant diversion for an hour and a half. That's exactly what I got from 'Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding'.
The upbeat multi-generational slice-of-life narrative bears the appropriate tagline-"Life is a journey. Family is a trip." It is worth the price of admission to see the gifted Fonda grace the screen playing this free-wheeling, eccentric force of nature.
...plays like "Wanderlust 2: Family Reunion" without as many (intentional) laughs.
More akin to a Jane Fonda vanity project than a narrative, it's so bland that even such schmaltzy femme-oriented cable networks as Lifetime TV might dismiss it for a decided lack of bite.
Audience Reviews for Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
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- Jude: The men are doing all the heavy lifting. Seems a little sexist to me. How about you, Zoe?
- Zoe: It's not about equal division of labor. It's about an equitable and efficient allocation of resources.
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- Diane: Your father and I are getting a divorce.
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- Grace: It's difficult for kids to accept that their parents are human.
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