Children of the Revolution

Name: Children of the Revolution
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 30, 1997
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Judy Davis, Sam Neill

1997

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Miramax Films | Release Date: April 30, 1997 | R

Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill

Summary: After a mad, passionate fling on a whirlwind trip to Moscow, party girl Joan Fraser (Davis) returns home pregnant. And when little Joe is born, everyone wonders who "Daddy" is. Soon, the ball starts rolling on a hilarious sequence of events that includes a clueless husband (Rush), a lovesick double agent (Neill), and even Joseph StalinAfter a mad, passionate fling on a whirlwind trip to Moscow, party girl Joan Fraser (Davis) returns home pregnant. And when little Joe is born, everyone wonders who "Daddy" is. Soon, the ball starts rolling on a hilarious sequence of events that includes a clueless husband (Rush), a lovesick double agent (Neill), and even Joseph Stalin (Abraham). (BV Entertainment)… Expand

Director: Peter Duncan

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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Barbara Shulgasser

The scenes with Stalin and his frightened underlings, his giddy yes-men tip-toeing around him, are written and directed by Duncan with a grace, agility and comic deftness one rarely is treated to at the movies these days. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Children bumps into a few dead spots along its irreverent way... But casual sophistication and wiggy Australian self-awareness give this product of unreconstructed bourgeois decadence its idiosyncratic charm. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

A gloss on the disillusion that came with the embracing of communist ideals that is part playful farce, part dark satire, this unclassifiable film, both comic and strange, always holds your attention even when it doesn't seem to know where it's going. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

That Duncan can't come up with a satisfying ending and lets the story drift into a confusing polemic is hardly surprising. He's guilty of overreaching -- interrupting his very sly satire with quasi-serious thoughts on the end of Soviet communism. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Not only is it based on a fairly original premise, but the humor exhibits a distinct edge. Read full review

Jane Horwitz

Using a cockeyed, surreal style harking back to Monty Python-ism, writer- director Peter Duncan illuminates the tragedy of all true believers whose faith depends upon keeping ears and eyes firmly shut. Read full review

Roger Ebert

It is enormously ambitious -- maybe too much so, since it ranges so widely between styles and strategies that it distracts from its own flow. Read full review

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