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Kid Stays In the Picture, The
USA Films
MPAA RATING: R for language and some brief violent and sexual images
Starring
Robert Evans (narrator),
Ali MacGraw,
Mia Farrow,
and
Phyllis George
Traces the meteoric rise, fall, and rise again of legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans. Adapted from Mr. Evans's tell-all autobiography, the movie takes the audience on an intimate journey into the mind of this Hollywood legend. (USA Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Robert Evans (book)
Brett Morgen
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Nanette Burstein
Brett Morgen
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 19, 2003
Video: August 19, 2003
Theatrical: July 26, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A candy store for film buffs.
100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
This stuff is golden. Directors Brett Morgan and Nanette Burstein make sure the movie goes down like potato chips. It's great fun and compulsively watchable. And don't leave before Dustin Hoffman makes a hilarious appearance as the credits roll.
100
Film Threat
Ron Wells
I've already seen at least 20 documentaries this year. They've left me amused, sad, informed, bored, pissed-off, whatever. I'm willing to bet, though, that I don't see another this year as richly entertaining or as cathartic as The Kid Stays in the Picture. Is it really that good? You better believe it.
100
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most American of businesses, and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest Hollywood document of all.
100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Has to be one of the must-see films for any student of Hollywood fame and infamy.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
An imaginative self-profile of producer Robert Evans, could well be the most totally irresistible movie of the summer.
90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A smart, funny and strangely touching film.
90
Slate
David Edelstein
A breezy hoot, and it's gorgeous to look at.
90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
One of the funniest, and most telling, films of the year. The filmmakers call "Kid" a documentary, but the movie is one of the unusual kind that is firmly lodged inside the subject's perspective.
88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Evans makes a terrific raconteur, imitating voices and putting us behind the scenes.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A new documentary about the life of this producer who put together one of the most remarkable winning streaks in Hollywood history, and followed it with a losing streak that almost destroyed him. It's one of the most honest films ever made about Hollywood.
80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Opulently produced, fittingly enough, and quite entertaining as a surface ride through the up, down and somewhat up again life of one of the New Hollywood's most colorful characters.
80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Evans has as distinctive an American voice as Mark Twain or Vin Scully, and the directors wisely let him do the talking.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A witty, colorful and poignant account of the life and times of producer Robert Evans.
80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Is legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans feeding us a load of crap in this documentary? When it's this much fun, who really cares?
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Robert Evans has been variously described as the Hugh Hefner of Hollywood, a Tinseltown Gatsby, the Lancelot of the backlot.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Occasionally feels a bit suffocating, like being trapped at a party by a drunkard who won't shut up until he tells you his entire life story.
75
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
A compelling portrait of a matchless man, who's still going strong at 72.
75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Fantasy, not honesty, is the point of The Kid Stays in the Picture.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Fascinating.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Ray Conlogue
The best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like, but how the creative process itself operates: messily, erratically, outside of most people's morality, but with a force and purposiveness that makes the machinations of the rest of us look irresolute by comparison.
70
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Evans, in effect, is the real producer here, and the film, which mostly consists of artfully blended archival footage, comes across like a last will and testament.
70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
If you ever suspected that assholes are running the world, this documentary adapting producer and former actor Robert Evans's autobiography, narrated with relish by Evans himself--the cinematic equivalent of a Vanity Fair article, complete with tuxes and swimming pools--offers all the confirmation you'll ever need.
70
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
It's either the world's greatest infomercial for fame (and its omnipresent companion, notoriety) or the saddest eulogy of all.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
This is classic Hollywood, at its best and worst, sticky rich and scabrous. It may not be the truth, per se, but it sure sounds good.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
If Hollywood is really a dream factory, then it's the movie moguls and movie stars who live that dream to the hilt. In the late 1970s few lived quite as large as Robert Evans.
63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The best part is during the closing credits. Dustin Hoffman does a brilliant, dead-on impression of Evans that captures the essence of the man more than all the self-serving grandiosity that preceded it.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The result is a snazzy kick -- it's never less than hugely entertaining -- that should in no way be mistaken for an unbiased account. But then, Evans is the quintessential Hollywood character.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The overall effect is too self-worshipping to be of lasting interest. The guy sure isn't shy!
40
LA Weekly
David Chute
Evans is a fascinating character, and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie.
10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The movie's only discernible purpose is as publicity for the book. An admitted egomaniac, Evans is no Hollywood villain, and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of Don Simpson. Instead, he'll probably get an Irving Thalberg award.
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