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  • 2010
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary When a young woman, Rose, shows up a few months later announcing that she is pregnant with Bennett’s child, the Brewers are forced to take her in.  At first, Rose’s presence threatens to tear the family even further apart but, eventually, her interaction with each of the Brewers proves to be the very thing that brings them back together....

Directed By: Shana Feste

Written By: Shana Feste

  • 2010
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 39 m

The Greatest

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary When a young woman, Rose, shows up a few months later announcing that she is pregnant with Bennett’s child, the Brewers are forced to take her in.  At first, Rose’s presence threatens to tear the family even further apart but, eventually, her interaction with each of the Brewers proves to be the very thing that brings them back together....

Directed By: Shana Feste

Written By: Shana Feste

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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18% Positive
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76% Mixed
13 Reviews
6% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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76% Mixed
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6% Negative
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75
The Greatest raises compelling questions about how parents continue on after the death of a child.
By Claudia Puig FULL REVIEW
60
First-time writer-director Shana Feste has made an uneven but often affecting film that requires its gifted cast to push hard against the script's schematic plotting to find moments of real emotion.
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Brosnan, who finds the truth in his character, is quite affecting. And Mulligan, gamely defining a surprisingly undefined young woman, is like a sunbeam piercing the gloom.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
50
A histrionic mess.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
50
Unfortunately, though its heart is smack in the right place, The Greatest tends to play more like a collection of appropriate, well-acted scenes than as a fully satisfying narrative.
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The Greatest often feels like a mash-up of Sarandon's greatest grief hits.
By Mary Pols FULL REVIEW
30
Not even the skillful performances of its stars, Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan, playing the boy’s parents, can cover up the mysterious gaps in continuity of a screenplay whose thudding dialogue spells out every emotion while refusing to clarify many crucial plot details.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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8% Negative
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Production Company Barbarian Films, Oceana Media Finance, Silverwood Films, Irish DreamTime
Release Date Apr 2, 2010
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Greatest/479564265598
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Method Fest
• 1 Nomination
Humanitas Prize
• 1 Nomination

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