Metacritic Film

Amy

Starring Alana De Roma, Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn, Nick Barker, and Kerry Armstrong

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some domestic violence, disturbing imag

World Wide Motion Pictures
Drama
104 minutes | Color
Australia
Released In Theaters January 26, 2001

This extraordinary movie tells the story of a young mother whose idealistic lifestyle is shattered by a traumatic event. She is faced with the prospect of life as a single mother, as she struggles to reach out to her daughter, who has cut herself off from the world. (Cascade Films)

WRITTEN BY
David Parker

DIRECTED BY
Nadia Tass

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

40 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Alana De Roma is going to be a tremendous star.
60 Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A skilled heart-tugger from Australia that verges on rock opera.
50 The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Warm of heart, modest in polish, Amy provides satisfactions that must be balanced against its flaws.
50 New York Post Lou Lumenick
The sort of heart-tugger a small group of people will love passionately.
50 LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
If Tass had found a way to include more playfulness, her film would be more endearing. Instead, she accents the easy bathos of David Parker's script, from the problems of the shrill, cliched neighbors to a finale that plays like a movie of the week.
50 TV Guide Steve Simels
Your ability to overlook the film's myriad contrivances will ultimately depend on how you react to little De Roma.
50 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
In the end, it trivializes the psychological complexity of the girl's post-traumatic stress and betrays a game group of actors who struggle to find balance between the alternately dark drama and the silly, over-the-top melodrama.
10 Village Voice Jessica Winter
Plumbs new depths of craven heartstring-yanking.

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