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  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Washington DC, 1963: the Cuban Missile Crisis is last year’s news, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s young administration is starting to hit its stride. Behind the scenes, however, winds of discontent are swirling. Thirteen-year-old Adam Stafford has his own problems to deal with. At that uncomfortable age when nothing seems possible, he...

Directed By: William Olsson

Written By: Alex Metcalf

  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 33 m

An American Affair

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Washington DC, 1963: the Cuban Missile Crisis is last year’s news, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s young administration is starting to hit its stride. Behind the scenes, however, winds of discontent are swirling. Thirteen-year-old Adam Stafford has his own problems to deal with. At that uncomfortable age when nothing seems possible, he...

Directed By: William Olsson

Written By: Alex Metcalf

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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33% Mixed
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50% Negative
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70
The film rises above its conventions. Just when it seems to be a fable of sexual initiation, An American Affair pivots away from sex. Just when it seems to be a re-dredging of the Kennedy mystique, it pushes past history. Thoughtfully and imperfectly, it dramatizes the flight from childhood, the surrender to adulthood and the pieces of us that survive.
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50
Even Oliver Stone would giggle at the notion that the CIA couldn't reach JFK through any means except via one of his blond playmates.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
40
A coming-of-age tale and a JFK assassination conspiracy movie. The first half of that equation works nicely...But the assassination story line is absurd.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW
38
An American Affair is sordid business blandly portrayed and not worth meddling with.
By Claudia Puig FULL REVIEW
30
Were it a farce instead of an earnest, paranoid thriller with pretensions to historicity, An American Affair might not seem so offensively exploitative. The fact that it is quite well acted, especially by Ms. Mol, who has the air of a sophisticated 1960s party animal down pat, only compounds the insult.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
30
Like many aspects of An American Affair, the music and the lopsided dramatic priorities take the viewer right out of the movie.
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I have no idea how such shameless prattle found its way to the screen.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Astrakan Films
Release Date Feb 27, 2009
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline What can you do for your country?
Website http://www.anamericanaffair.com/
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Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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