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Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

  • Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Glenn Close, Mary Kay Place, Patricia Clarkson
  • Summary: Over the course of four days, four suburban families will open up and lean on one another, sharing their burdens and joys, and help each other remember, it is the people we know and love - not the objects we own - that provide real hope and security to face whatever life throws at us. (IFC Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 29
  2. Negative: 3 out of 29
  1. Reviewed by: Laura Miller
    80
    All the acting in it is flawless, an overflowing handful of polished jewels.
  2. 80
    This is not the easiest film in the world to untangle, but our attentions are soon rewarded.
  3. The result is not a quilt, just a succession of story snippets that keep interrupting one another.
  4. 38
    The Safety of Objects is just another stilted comic-dramatic essay examining the mold in the white bread.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5