The Oranges

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The Oranges

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2012

1h 32m

Comedy

Drama

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A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.

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Critics Consensus

Despite the efforts of its accomplished cast, The Oranges suffers from a mediocre script that fails to deliver well-rounded characters, dramatic tension, or sufficient laughs.

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Anna Smith

metro.co.uk

Sep 1, 2017

3/5

All in all, perfectly fine thanks to the cast and a fitfully witty script - but nothing to write home about.

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

Dec 7, 2012

2/5

The movie's horribly jaunty soundtrack is a problem. Ditto the blah camera-work. But mostly it's the script, which turns out to be spineless.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Dec 6, 2012

2/5

A tricky social conundrum is boiled down, lightly prodded and then forgotten by the roadside. Shame.

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Allen Almachar

The MacGuffin

Jul 30, 2020

C

Sometimes, just sometimes, white picket fences and an SUV aren't all that bad.

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Chris Hunneysett

The Sunday People

Jul 25, 2019

2/5

takes the pith out of the audience

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Amie Simon

Three Imaginary Girls

Mar 4, 2019

There aren't really any surprises here. And it's a shame to waste this amount of acting talent on a script that really doesn't require much acting.

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Art T

@artechno 3 days ago

I am from NJ and familiar with the Oranges so I watched with glee to find this sordid affair between Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester so fundamentally false that it would take a moron to believe it. If they only snuck around on the side instead of throwing their affair into the face of all they have even known, there may have been a shred of credibility.

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WendyLSchmidt P

@RT51086966 Mar 23, 2025

I'm sorry but this is just another midlife crisis middle-aged man having it off with a girl that was almost like a daughter to him before he started to sleep with her. And the girl is unlikeable. This reminds me of the W. Allen films where he keeps trying to tell us it's fine to sleep with his step daughter.

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Lisa M

@lijomo Dec 15, 2024

It had so much potential to be better, but alas it felt like someone just wanted the plot idea with no substance. Taboo relationship hated by everyone!! Yet the movie gives no reason for people to not see these relationships as having potential to be something more, or real, despite it not being cultivated in an appropriate way. They could have easily shown a development of mutual and platonic understanding, humor, friendship- before realizing it could be more- but it didn't. And the ending didn't make sense. Nina, while running away from everything ever, you could see character development happening and some sort of effort, then to just leave the ending as is was wild to me. I think it's a good watch, but god it could have been so much better.

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gsmbg T

@RT76743863 Oct 14, 2024

What a terrible movie. All that talent just wasted.

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Munkhjargal A

@RT28084692 Jul 23, 2024

In this film, the director told us how such a small dispute between neighboring families can turn out to be a big problem. It turned out to be a real-life movie

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Bahad j

@RT27093708 Jul 22, 2024

In my opinion, I felt that the movie was very good, behind all this, the filmmaker was able to come up with the right festive details to congratulate the members of the behind-the-scenes team.

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Synopsis

A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.

Director: Julian Farino
Producer: Anthony Bregman, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech
Screenwriter: Ian Helfer, Jay Reiss
Distributor: ATO Pictures
Production Co: ATO Pictures, Likely Story, Olympia Pictures
Rating: R (Sexual References|Language|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 5, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $319.4K
Runtime: 1h 32m

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