The Details (2012)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 18
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 7
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 4,167
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After ten years of marriage, Jeff and Nealy Lang (Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks) have an idyllic suburban home... and a relationship on the skids. But, when a family of hungry raccoons ransacks their perfectly manicured backyard, Jeff becomes single-mindedly obsessed with eradicating the pests by any means necessary. Soon the relentless rodents aren't merely uprooting the lawn, but also overturning the Langs' entire bourgeois existence, as the man-versus-beast battle leads into an absurd
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Cast
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Tobey Maguire
Jeff Lang -
Elizabeth Banks
Nealy Lang -
Laura Linney
Lila -
Ray Liotta
Peter, Peter Mazzoni -
Kerry Washington
Rebecca, Rebecca Mazzon... -
Dennis Haysbert
Lincoln -
Christopher Curry
Narrator -
Gary Schwartz
Plans Inspector -
José Miguel Gándara
Jose -
Miles Ellenwood
Miles -
Melissa Mainzer
22 Year Old Hottie -
Rose Cano
Alma -
Traci Crouch
Lincoln -
Cathy Vu
Fantasy Asian Fruit Lad... -
Gretchen Lieberum
Great Internet Boobs -
Marlette Buchanan
Angela -
Lucas Steel Estes
Ultrasound Child -
Sam Trammell
Chris
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All Critics (33) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (18)
"The Details" is not just entertaining, but potentially useful.
Top CriticAs the title suggests, it's all in the details, which writer-director Estes provides in large if not always convincing doses.
It's hard to make a fine actress like Laura Linney look off-key and shrill, but "The Details" manages to do just that. It's hardly an accomplishment.
"The Details" cancels itself out by being too campy to take seriously and too tragic to laugh at.
"The Details" wears its quirky heart on its sleeve, signaling (and smirking at) its own silliness, at every opportunity, with an intrusively antic score that makes everything sound like a giant joke.
It all adds up to create a dicey morality tale that's as improbable as it is strangely believable.
a painfully dull slog through an exceedingly stupid subdivision
The script is somewhat provocative in its examination of relationships during absurd circumstances, but its twists eventually become less compelling.
Estes never seems to find the balance between dark farce and existential drama, and the cast - especially the goofy Maguire - is left trying to sort it all out.
There are a few highlights worth a look and an accomplished supporting cast to ease the oddity along, yet The Details doesn't add up to much despite its rather elaborate design of misery.
It's a Weinstein release, but I don't foresee any big Oscar push for this wacky misfire.
The longer it went on, the more eager I was for it to be over.
A very well cast, R-rated TV sitcom.
Bad choices and immoral acts go unpunished in dark comedy.
The wacky is forced and unfunny and the misery is nowhere near wretched enough.
Maguire, given the chance to play "a dirty philanderer" and "a cheating, cat-killing liar," wrings every laugh he can out of this character. He may not be Spider-Man any longer, but his bug eyes never let him down.
Audience Reviews for The Details
It would do an injustice to the movie to give too much away...so let's just say it all starts when raccoons continue to uproot newly laid sod at Jeff and Nealy's home. Jeff becomes obsessed with stopping them. His obsession sets the story in motion and with each choice he makes he goes deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole...
I found the movie very funny throughout. Toby Maguire is spot on as Jeff. He has just the right mix of boyish innocence and everyman look about him to put you in Jeff's shoes. Elizabeth Banks, as his wife Nealy, has a some great moments as revelations of what her husband has been up to come out. But the scene stealer in the move is Laura Linney as the "wackadoo" neighbor. From her attire, her facial expressions to her line readings, Linney shows just how deft she is at comedy. Whenever she was on screen I was laughing.
Big thumbs up from me on this one...in fact, I look forward to seeing it again!!
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- Jeff Lang: The things I'm thinking you couldn't imagine.
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- Lincoln: It's impossible to reason with an unreasonable person.
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