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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Jenny is stunned to see Lucy on her doorstep and, what's worse, unable to keep her out. Jenny has little time to explain her sister's arrival to her fiancé Bill (who has never met Lucy or anyone in Jenny's family). Lucy tries to update Jenny about their old friends in The Bronx and about their estranged mother but when the news is not w...

Directed By: Nancy Savoca

Written By: Mary Tobler, Nancy Savoca

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Union Square

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Jenny is stunned to see Lucy on her doorstep and, what's worse, unable to keep her out. Jenny has little time to explain her sister's arrival to her fiancé Bill (who has never met Lucy or anyone in Jenny's family). Lucy tries to update Jenny about their old friends in The Bronx and about their estranged mother but when the news is not w...

Directed By: Nancy Savoca

Written By: Mary Tobler, Nancy Savoca

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Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Mixed
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80
Aug 16, 2012
It is intended for an audience that is willing to take a journey without knowing the destination.
By Kerry Lengel FULL REVIEW
67
Jul 11, 2012
There isn't much to Union Square, but the movie does understand how people want to love their families on their own terms, forgetting that their families may be the only ones who really know who they are.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 13, 2012
Union Square's biggest flaw is its predictability.
By James Adams FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 12, 2012
Despite its problems, there's a touching sweetness at the heart of Nancy Savoca's intimate family drama about estranged sisters trying to reconnect.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 11, 2012
The actors are so good, though, that they make you want to see what they could do in a better movie than this tedious acting-class experiment.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 8, 2012
Nancy Savoca's film begins in caricature and ends in sentimentality, only briefly hitting the sweet spot in between.
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 10, 2012
Sorvino's Bronx bawler veers from mascara-streaked monster to outer-borough sage as each scene requires, while Savoca's agitated camera strains for handheld immediacy but ends up just looking amateurish and ugly.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Armian Pictures, Cine-Si
Release Date Jul 13, 2012
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.theunionsquaremovie.com/
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