Metacritic Film

Soft Fruit

Starring Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Geneviève Lemon, and Sacha Horler

MPAA RATING: R for sexuality/nudity, language and drug content

Fox Searchlight Pictures
Drama
101 minutes | Color
Australia / USA
Released In Theaters March 17, 2000

A comical family drama about going home, letting go and finding acceptance in the most unlikely places. (20th Century Fox)

WRITTEN BY
Christina Andreef

DIRECTED BY
Christina Andreef

Overall Metascore

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

56 / 100

Critic Reviews

78	Mr. Showbiz Yields beguiling nectar.
75	New York Daily News A slog to get through, but Jeanie Drynan's nuanced performance as the enduring matriarch makes it all worthwhile.
70	TV Guide This Australian tear-jerker finds more humor than you'd imagine possible in the story of a dying woman getting to know her adult children.
60	Village Voice Bursting with grotesque burlesques of household relations.
60	The New York Times The general talent and dedication of the ensemble mitigate the script's occasional lapses into sentimentality and noisy confrontation.
40	LA Weekly Chuck Wilson The characters...are so unlikable that one longs for a bit of cheap sentiment if only to make them palatable.
38	New York Post Honest but also derivative and crude.
20	Los Angeles Times Asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life.

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