Bringing Up Bobby

Name: Bringing Up Bobby
Genre: Comedy, Family
Released: September 28, 2012
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 34
Cast: Bill Pullman, Marcia Cross, Milla Jovovich, Spencer List

2012

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Monterey Media | Release Date: September 28, 2012 | PG-13

Starring: Bill Pullman, Marcia Cross, Milla Jovovich, Spencer List

Summary: In an effort to escape her murky past and build a better future, Olive , a nomadic European con-artist, and her 10-year-old American-born son, Bobby, find themselves living in Oklahoma. As her top priority, Olive seeks to give Bobby the things she never had: she enrolls him in school, makes him do his homework and tries her hardest to be aIn an effort to escape her murky past and build a better future, Olive , a nomadic European con-artist, and her 10-year-old American-born son, Bobby, find themselves living in Oklahoma. As her top priority, Olive seeks to give Bobby the things she never had: she enrolls him in school, makes him do his homework and tries her hardest to be a good mother, and with the help of an old friend from Oklahoma, Walt, Olive "provides" for Bobby in the only way she knows how. But despite of her efforts (or perhaps because of them) Bobby displays troubling behavior both at his school and in their conservative neighborhood. Things take a turn for the worse after Bobby's unfortunate "run-in" with the local and wealthy businessman Kent (Bill Pullman), and Olive's criminal past finally catches up with her, forcing her to make the toughest judgment of all. (Monterey Media)… Expand

Director: Famke Janssen

Genre(s): Comedy, Family

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 93 min

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Rex Reed

Sep 25, 2012

Sensitively acted, carefully written and directed with heartfelt compassion, Bringing Up Bobby is an engrossing little independent film made on an austere budget in 22 days. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Sep 26, 2012

Bringing Up Bobby centers around a mugging performance by Jovovich, who can't ground the film's attempts to tie together sentiments from "Paper Moon" and "Miss Saigon." Read full review

Frank Scheck

Sep 27, 2012

Unfortunately, the alternately melodramatic and comic Bringing Up Bobby fails to impress, despite a showy turn by Milla Jovovich in a sharp departure from her usual zombie butt-kicking in the Resident Evil series. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Sep 27, 2012

Janssen's affectionate, almost-1970s-style view of innocents-at-large may not be polished, but earns points for being from the heart. Read full review

Marsha McCreadie

Sep 25, 2012

The movie permanently downshifts to moralizing melodrama and retrograde Stella Dallas–like maternal sacrifice when Bobby has an accidental run-in with real estate magnate Kent (Bill Pullman). Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Sep 30, 2012

A technically competent but painfully broad dramedy about a larcenous mother-and-son duo in the Midwest. This gender-flipped, latter-day "Paper Moon" lacks that film's judicious restraint, among other things, alternating hick Americana cartoonishness with maudlin appeals to the tear ducts. Read full review

Nick Schager

Sep 23, 2012

Just an extended dramatization of the 1980s anti-drug PSA that memorably cautioned "I learned it by watching you!" Read full review

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WhySoSerious008

Oct 11, 2012

All I have to say is Milla Jovovich. She gives an incredible performance which carries the film through the pacing issues. She is an excellent actress and I am proud of her. Oscars here we come

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Nazgulero

Nov 22, 2012

What a horrible flick. Milla Jovovich throws in an awful performance, the kid is just utterly annoying. Who cares about any of these characters ?
I know this is Famke Janssen's first effort, but please...this movie is unbearable.

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