- Studio: Polychrome Pictures
- Release Date: Mar 16, 2007
- Summary: My Brother is an inner city, New York story of two impoverished boys, one whom is developmentally disabled, and the bond they have for each other. (Codeblack Entertainment)
- Director: Anthony Lover
- Genre(s): Drama
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of 6
-
Mixed: 4 out of 6
-
Negative: 2 out of 6
-
50The first half of Lover's film is surprisingly affecting...But the film comes apart in its second half, when James' flight triggers a long series of flashbacks to the brothers' childhood.
-
My Brother is brimming with would-be life lessons. But the movie goes in so many directions, and follows through on so few of them, that all it transmits is a vague glow. It's watered-down chicken soup for the soul.
-
Writer-director Anthony Lover takes such a kid-gloves approach to his handicapped co-star that he achieves the opposite of the intended effect: Every time Scott enters a scene, it's as if someone just told the entire cast "Whatever you do, don't say 'retard.' "
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 2 out of 4
-
Mixed: 1 out of 4
-
Negative: 1 out of 4
-
JanetB.10Beautiful work, beautiful lessons, beautiful soul. Every moment I cherished. Acting exquisite.
-
-
JayH.5
-
-
JollieH.0This movie sucks. Not kidding. This is a really, really, really bad movie. The VV was being kind. The director should shoot himself.
-