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The Tic Code (2000)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:20
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Though the story is conventional, it's nonetheless sympathetic and credible.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The Tic Code tells the story of Miles, an extraordinary gifted twelve year-old who lives with his single mother, Laura, and shares a fierce love of jazz with his best friend Todd. Miles is... [More]
Starring: Gregory Hines, Christopher George Marquette, Polly Draper, Carol Kane
Director: Gary Winick
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Reviews for The Tic Code
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Egrossing, entertaining, and thoroughly conventional. Full Review |
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Ultimately, it's Wolff who saves the day by supplying the challenging music that sets the tone for Hines and Marquette's soul-searching. Full Review |
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A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie. Full Review |
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If it seems to have the ingredients of an after-school special, the performances take it to another level. Gut level. Full Review |
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What makes the film engaging are the performances ... appealing secondary characters ... and occasional interventions into its soap operatic formula. Full Review |
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A fairly satisfying small-scale drama with some fine musical sidelights. Full Review |
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For me, it's just a little too restrained, with too many false notes. Full Review |
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A cut above most.
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Raising it above the usual clichés are the superb jazz music and a sparkling script by lead actress Polly Draper. Full Review |
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Delightfully unsentimental, yet uplifting, and while spinning its wholly credible tale gives its audience quite a bit of knowledge and understanding about kids, an unusual disease, and the universe of jazz musicians. Full Review |
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The Tic Code is the summer's surprise gift, a loving and humane film that rises above the season's overhyped blockbusters like a flower poking up through the concrete. Full Review |
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