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Kid Stays In the Picture, The

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Robert Evans (book)
Brett Morgen
Directed by:
Nanette Burstein
Brett Morgen
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 26, 2002
DVD: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Has to be one of the must-see films for any student of Hollywood fame and infamy.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
An imaginative self-profile of producer Robert Evans, could well be the most totally irresistible movie of the summer.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A smart, funny and strangely touching film.
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.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Evans makes a terrific raconteur, imitating voices and putting us behind the scenes.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A witty, colorful and poignant account of the life and times of producer Robert Evans.
Read Full Review >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?
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Robert Evans has been variously described as the Hugh Hefner of Hollywood, a Tinseltown Gatsby, the Lancelot of the backlot.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
A compelling portrait of a matchless man, who's still going strong at 72.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Fantasy, not honesty, is the point of The Kid Stays in the Picture.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The overall effect is too self-worshipping to be of lasting interest. The guy sure isn't shy!
Read Full Review >LA Weekly David Chute
Evans is a fascinating character, and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Robert H. gave it a 10:
Tremendous documentary on the life of Robert Evans as seen through his eyes. It held the audiences interest throughout with a great look back at photographs and bits of movies from another era gone by. As you watch his life unfold, it brought to mind Jackie Gleason's old saying: "Be nice to people you meet on the way up because it will be the same people that you will meet on the way down!" The documentary shows his metoric rise to fame from a chance happening, how he saved Paramount Studios, and his crash back into hell. The best part is that you can actually feel his experience. Simply a tremendous film that lays his guts and blood on a platter for all too see.
