The Stroller Strategy (2013)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 11
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 7
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 177
Movie Info
This charming, modern tale tells the story of Parisian Thomas Platz, who is suddenly made the guardian of a baby - then pretends to be its real father in order to win back Marie, the girlfriend who dumped him a year before. Stuck between staying a manchild forever, and proving he is ready to take the next steps of marriage and family with the love of his life, Thomas goes on an unexpectedly hilarious adventure getting the girl of his dreams to believe he has changed.
Jun 14, 2013 Limited
$3.3k
Rialto Premieres
Cast
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Raphael Personnaz
Thomas Platz -
Charlotte Le Bon
Marie Deville -
Jerome Commandeur
Paul Bordinot -
Camélia Jordana
Mélanie -
Julie Ferrier
Valérie -
François Berléand
Jean-Luc Hamory -
Francois Rollin
Franck Del Rio -
Clément Michel
Fabrice Le Gallec -
Baltazar Rizzo
Felipe -
Loanna Foissac
Léo -
Timéo Foissac
Léo -
Anne Charrier
Lorraine -
Guilaine Londez
L'infirmière de réan... -
Yelle
Flore l'infirmière -
Philippe Hérisson
Dr. Guérinaud -
Garance Legrou
Le professeur de sig... -
Maud LeGuenedal
Christelle choriste ... -
Sébastien Castro
l'infirmier à l'accu... -
François Civil
François -
Renaud Barse
Michel -
Rachel Arditi
JLH's secretary -
Martine Fontaine
Marilyn Monroe -
Jean-Pascal Abribat
Hotel Receptionist -
Oksana Markham
Françoise the Stript... -
Claudine Acs
Older Woman -
Jean-Louis Fremont
Le Brancardier -
Phillip Schurer
Jimmy the "Internet ... -
Victor Destrez
Valérie's Son -
Edgar Monnet
Edgar -
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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (11)
In what universe would a reasonable mother entrust a virtual stranger with her infant while she's in the hospital?
Top CriticIt's a goofy, episodic trifle designed to induce swoons among the saccharine who coo every time they see a cute guy, or a baby, or a cute guy holding a baby while watching YouTube videos about how to change a diaper.
Cute to the point of blandness, tyro French helmer Clement Michel's vaguely amiable laffer scrupulously avoids all ambiguity, innovation or flashes of wit.
Lukewarm rom-com has dubious ideas about parenthood.
The result is not continuous laughter but 90 minutes in a kind of aerated existence, just credible enough to be amusing.
Writer-director Clément Michel forgot to give his characters personality, let alone charm.
A lousy, middle-brow situational comedy with ... almost no laughs.
Unsophisticated, but would be fine if it either committed to an even more mannered, farcical tone or had more convincingly sketched, fully dimensional characters. It does neither.
A script like this has dozens of possibilities, but most have been mined out by other films
What most rankles about the film is the way that its insistence on paternal instincts as the principal signifier of male adulthood leads it to sanction the most childlike behavior of all.
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Foreign Titles
- The Stroller Strategy (La Strategie de la poussette) (DE)
- The Stroller Strategy (La Strategie de la poussette) (UK)
