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- 2003
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 49 m
- 2003
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 49 m
Summary A story about the loving, frustrating, reassuring, insane, and ultimately inescapable bonds of family. (MGM)
Directed By: Fred Schepisi
Written By: Jesse Wigutow
- 2003
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 49 m
- 2003
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 49 m
It Runs in the Family
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6.1
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Summary A story about the loving, frustrating, reassuring, insane, and ultimately inescapable bonds of family. (MGM)
Directed By: Fred Schepisi
Written By: Jesse Wigutow
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
44
29% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
50% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
21% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
44
29% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
50% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
21% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Jesse Wigutow's screenplay is one of those marvels of economy, idiomatic facility and well-chosen detail that knows exactly when to cut away from a scene without grinding it into your face.
Manages to sidestep the potential overload of cheap sentimentality -- an intimate dance between an elderly couple registers with heartbreaking sweetness -- and evokes a lingering sense of loss.
Family goes easy on the schmaltz, and the catastrophes have the puncturing feel of real life.
As an actor, Kirk Douglas still has more to give; too bad he didn't have more to work with.
The question is not how bad this excuse for a domestic comedy is (medium cringe), but how the gifted Fred Schepisi got suckered into directing a vanity project.
The family's all here and surely, with all their accumulated years of wisdom, they should have been able to distinguish a cloying script when one fell into their hands.
Achingly long and pointless, "Runs" is a movie about family that's dishonest in its presentation of every relationship.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.1
50% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
38% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
13% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.1
50% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
38% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
13% Negative
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Production Company
Buena Vista International,
Family Films,
Furthur Films,
GreenStreet Productions,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release Date Apr 25, 2003
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Some families can survive anything. Even each other.
