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  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown – and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called “a budding Picasso.” But not all of the attention was positive. From the beginning, many faulted her parents for e...

Directed By: Amir Bar-Lev

  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 22 m

My Kid Could Paint That

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown – and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called “a budding Picasso.” But not all of the attention was positive. From the beginning, many faulted her parents for e...

Directed By: Amir Bar-Lev

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Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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16% Mixed
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It's a dissection of how the media found and fed and nurtured the story in their insatiable need for content to fill their news hours and talk shows, how it just as quickly turned on them and transformed the story from celebration to vilification, and how the public turned right along with them.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
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Amir Bar-Lev's engrossing film is as much about the stubborn ambiguities of art, truth, meaning, and relationships as it is about the authenticity of the Olmstead oeuvre.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
83
The result is a true conundrum: You can't say for sure if a scam is in play or if a genuine genius is being smeared. And the brilliance of the film is that it doesn't let you feel secure in choosing either side.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
75
Documentary gold, and you will have formed an opinion on the controversy by the time you leave the theater. You may not know art, but you'll know what you like.
By Connie Ogle FULL REVIEW
75
No one emerges unpunished.
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63
Struggles to maintain a sober, evenhanded tone about an utterly ridiculous story.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
40
My conclusion is that exploitation of a child for the sake of one's career is a shameful act.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW

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Production Company A&E IndieFilms, Axis Films International, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Passion Pictures
Release Date Oct 5, 2007
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Inspiration or Manipulation? You Decide.
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination

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