Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
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45 out of 100

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6.7 out of 10

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  • Starring: Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Jane Fonda, Nat Wolff
  • Summary: Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding is a comedy about an uptight New York City lawyer who takes her two spirited teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse in the countryside for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets, and self-discovery. (IFC Films)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 25
  3. Negative: 5 out of 25
  1. New York Observer
    Reviewed by: Rex Reed
    Jun 13, 2012
    75
    Pop songs, beautiful bucolic scenery and the joy of watching Jane Fonda fizz in a fun role that looks like a no-brainer are elements that a skilled director like Australia's polished Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) blends with perfection.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    Jun 4, 2012
    60
    The saving grace to the utter predictability in Christina Mengert and Joseph Muszynski's screenplay is reasonably personable characters and spirited acting by director Bruce Beresford's cast.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Jun 7, 2012
    60
    Peace, Love and Misunderstanding has a place for everybody in its heart-of-gold band.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    Jun 8, 2012
    38
    It's like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Catskills.

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  1. lancekoz
    3
    Yow, this was a dreary, long, contentious ride. A modern story about families in a culture clash is my thing, but this had no one in it to root for. Everyone was an unyielding stereotype and stayed that way against all odds. Drippy script, predictable traumas, mediocre acting. And it is a marketing ploy to call it a comedy. City people meet tie-dyed, small town inhabitants.....with indoor chickens.... surely this is hilarious. IT is not. I gave it a three for nice scenery and reasonable photography.… Expand
  2. metamotivcritic
    3
    It's hard to believe (and rather depressing) that a director who created such a beautiful, subtle movie as Tender Mercies could have devolved into one who creates such over-the-top, un-involving charactertures and stereotypes as the ones portrayed in this movie. It just goes to show (as if we didn't know) that Hollywood can turn anyone into a philistine. It was interesting to see Jane Fonda show such a commitment to her character, even when that character is a characterture (in fact, a characterture of her own youthful characterture, hence a meta-characterture). Not a great job of acting, but an impressively unselfconscious performance nonetheless. On the plus side, Elizabeth Olsen confirms the fact that even in an underdeveloped and stereotypical role she has a great movie presence (and is more than a credible actress). On the other hand, Jerry Garcia must be turning over in his grave (he was buried, wasn't he?) at the surfeit of tie-dying in this movie. Finally, the most egregious sin of the movie is the underlying Hollywood "lesson" that "romance conquers all"-- substantive political differences, bad parenting, bad hair-dos, everything is secondary to romance. And here I was trying to find the meaning of life in Nietzsche, Marx, Sartre...and it was all there in a Beatles lyric. "All you need is love"!… Collapse

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