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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m
The Kids Grow Up

Summary Documentary filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street) has captured much of his daughter Lucy’s life – and their relationship – on camera. Now his only child is 17 and preparing to leave home for college. Lucy’s imminent departure is the springboard for The Kids Grow Up, a funny, moving and deeply personal look at modern-day parenting. (Sha...

Directed By: Doug Block

Written By: Doug Block

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m

The Kids Grow Up

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Documentary filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street) has captured much of his daughter Lucy’s life – and their relationship – on camera. Now his only child is 17 and preparing to leave home for college. Lucy’s imminent departure is the springboard for The Kids Grow Up, a funny, moving and deeply personal look at modern-day parenting. (Sha...

Directed By: Doug Block

Written By: Doug Block

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
61
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42% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
61
50% Positive
6 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
8% Negative
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90
Oct 28, 2010
You are not Doug Block, of course. Except to the extent - measured by the depth of your absorption in this remarkable film - that you are.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 29, 2010
The absorbingly bittersweet result ranks as one of the best non-fiction films of the year.
By John P. McCarthy FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 12, 2010
Block wears his neuroses so guilelessly on his sleeve and organizes his material with such skill, that what might have been insufferable navel-gazing attains poignancy.
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60
Oct 26, 2010
The second in a proposed self-reflective doc trilogy, director Doug Block's embarrassingly honest follow-up to "51 Birch Street" (2005) is a neurotic, occasionally poignant rumination on his teenage daughter doing just what the title says.
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50
Oct 30, 2010
How much of this you'll find enlightening and how much simply creepy will depend on your tolerance for cinematic navel-gazing.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
42
Oct 28, 2010
By experiencing Block's films, we aren't merely witnessing his neurosis, we're abetting and validating it.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW
25
Oct 29, 2010
Maybe being able to look back in time is comforting for Block and company, but what makes him think complete strangers give a damn about his not-especially-interesting family? I certainly don't.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Copacetic Pictures, Hard Working Movies, ZDF/Arte, Channel Four Films, HBO Documentary Films, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)
Release Date Oct 29, 2010
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Letting go is hard to do
Website http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/
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