Children of the Revolution
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  • 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 Stalin (Abraham). (BV Entertainment)… Collapse

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  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
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  1. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    100
    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.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    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.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Laura Miller
    80
    Children of the Revolution won't leave its audiences weak with laughter, but it should have the most perceptive among them arguing in the aisles.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    It is enormously ambitious -- maybe too much so, since it ranges so widely between styles and strategies that it distracts from its own flow.

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