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  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary David and Paige Walling and Terry and Cathy Ostroff are best friends and neighbors living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey. Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff, newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan, returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Rather than developing an interest in ...

Directed By: Julian Farino

Written By: Ian Helfer, Jay Reiss

  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

The Oranges

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
46
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
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Summary David and Paige Walling and Terry and Cathy Ostroff are best friends and neighbors living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey. Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff, newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan, returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Rather than developing an interest in ...

Directed By: Julian Farino

Written By: Ian Helfer, Jay Reiss

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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65% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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65% Mixed
15 Reviews
17% Negative
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80
Oct 5, 2012
What makes you sit up straight is that The Oranges takes seriously everyone's unhappiness, including the home-wrecker's, without letting anyone off the hook of responsibility for their own becalmed misery.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 5, 2012
The storyline delicately tiptoes along the line of good taste and is embroidered by a first-rate cast. Still, a knockout moment is missing.
By Olly Richards FULL REVIEW

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58
Oct 6, 2012
What starts off as a neighborhood scandal becomes a liberating thing for everyone involved - an attitude that seems as if it's trying to be oh so European, and might have been had the director, Julian Farino, not been working so hard to convince us of the Deep Inner Goodness of everyone involved.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 5, 2012
While it claims to be exported from New Jersey, The Oranges is peddling an alien motto: When life hands you lemons, fuhgeddaboudit.
By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 4, 2012
How could a movie starring Hugh Laurie, Oliver Platt, Allison Janney and Catherine Keener go so wrong? That is the mystery behind The Oranges, a dysfunctional-family comedy - excuse the cliché - that backs away in terror from its potentially explosive subject.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 2, 2012
The Oranges, an extremely dry comedy directed by Julian Farino, is kind of like a takedown of the suburbs written by the people who designed the menu at Olive Garden: It's inoffensive, forgettable, and you don't actually have to chew anything.
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Oct 3, 2012
As much as the dialogue in the film voices an attitude of self-liberation and champions the positives of severing accepted social constraints, it seems to be constantly taking one step forward and two steps back.
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Production Company ATO Pictures, Olympus Pictures, Likely Story, FilmNation Entertainment
Release Date Oct 5, 2012
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline It's about to get juicy.
Website http://welcometotheoranges.com/
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Awards

AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
• 1 Nomination
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 1 Nomination

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