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Critics Consensus: Thanks to strong performances and a steady directorial hand, Dominick and Eugene successfully navigates potentially tricky themes in thoughtful, compelling fashion without resorting to trite sentimentality.
Critic Consensus: Thanks to strong performances and a steady directorial hand, Dominick and Eugene successfully navigates potentially tricky themes in thoughtful, compelling fashion without resorting to trite sentimentality.
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Dominick and Eugene is every bit as icky as its premise would suggest, and possibly even more so. The film is a heavy, clanging guilt machine that functions by systematically exploiting Nicky's handicap.
The film's shameless efforts to reach for the jugular mainly land in bathos.
Taking potentially sticky material...Young has held a hard line and has shaped a story of relationships that rings pure and fine as crystal.
Young's socially-concerned drama is unafraid of tackling complex emotional issues, but what few patronising and hackneyed insights it offers are waved like red flags. Unsophisticated.
As directed by Robert M. Young, ''Dominick and Eugene'' has a refreshing plainness and a welcome unwillingness to milk the story for more pathos than is warranted.
This thoughtful little piece is also sensitive without being sentimental.
Most of the time Young manages to deal subtly with the emotions, and in these moments the film is affecting and sincere.
Overly sentimental perhaps, but grippingly compassionate and superbly played by the two leads.
That it achieves its goals in ways that are entertaining and engrossing and not preachy or didactic is a credit to director Robert M Young and his writers.
Terrific performances......sweet as honey
About a developmentally disabled young man and his compassionate brother.
Well-meaning and successful in its portrayal of people coping with disability and the guilt this raises in everyone affected, and despite admirable performances... [it's] nevertheless sometimes unsubtle and occasionally overstated.
the unlikely pairing of tom hulce and ray liotta is the thing here, hulce predictably in the walkaway gimme role of "someone mentally challenged" and ray liotta as a nice guy(gasp!). a feel good movie that feels good.
Super Reviewer
It has it's moments, here and there, but overall Dominick and Eugene plays like a bad after-school special. Heavy on the sentimentality and lite on the realism. The intentions seem sincere but the result is often sappy and sometimes ridiculous.
Not a bad bit of film. I rarely see Tom Hulce outside of Amadeus and his performance here is good..okay maybe a bit too much after school special.
Great movie!
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