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Mrs. Doubtfire
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13
Starring
Robin Williams,
Sally Field,
Pierce Brosnan,
Harvey Fierstein,
Lisa Jakub,
Matthew Lawrence,
Mara Wilson,
and
Robert Prosky
An unemployed actor (Williams) loses custody of his children after his wife leaves him. Desperate to spend more time with the kids, the crafty thespian decides to dress up as a 60-year-old British woman and interview with his ex-wife for a nanny position. He lands the job, but he'll have to give the performance of his life to keep it. (Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Randi Mayem Singer
Leslie Dixon
Anne Fine (novel Alias Madame Doubtfire)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Chris Columbus
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 14, 2003
Video: March 12, 1996
Theatrical: November 24, 1993
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| RUNNING TIME: |
125 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Best Makeup, 66th Annual Academy Awards; Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical (Williams), 1994 Golden Globes

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90
Variety
Brian Lowry
Director Chris Columbus shrewdly brings together many of the same selling points as in his "Home Alone" movies, mixing broad comedic strokes with heavy-handed messages about the magical power of family.

80
Empire
Caroline Westbrook
Although the broad comedy of the first half soon gives way to a tidal wave of entirely uncalled for sentimentality, this is still a laugh riot - the sight of our hero setting fire to his falsies never fails to amuse.

80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
And you will laugh till your ribs ache -- not because director Chris Columbus of the "Home Alone" movies has a gift for farce, which he does, but because Williams is to funny what the Energizer Bunny is to batteries. He keeps going and going and going.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Strictly speaking, it's not a top example of movie making, but it offers two hours of undeniably solid entertainment, and not too many viewers can argue with that.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Williams gives an inspired comic performance. Unfortunately, he outclasses the movie, which is basically a patchwork rip-off of Tootsie.

70
Time
Richard Schickel
Most of the fun comes from seeing people fooled by what seems to us, who are in on the joke, a completely penetrable ruse. Curiously enough, what's really unpersuasive about Mrs. Doubtfire -- not to say draggy -- is its nondrag sequences.

63
TV Guide
Staff(not credited)
Daniel is so hopelessly immature, and played with such puppy-dog overkill by Williams, that it's impossible to root for him--until you meet his wife, whom Sally Field makes even less appealing.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
But the film is not as amusing as the premise, and there were long stretches when I'd had quite enough of Mrs. Doubtfire.

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Williams has to break out of a second-rate "Tootsie" imitation, ankles clamped in pathos and face covered in latex. He pulls it off in the end, but it's not pretty.

50
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
The movie's biggest challenge, one that it does not exactly meet, is to persuade the audience that this husband and father's escapade is somehow an act of love.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
That Mrs. Doubtfire, a Tootsie Poppins for our times, misfires in the plausibility department and mis-aims its well-meaning if muddled messages about divorce doesn't matter. [24 Nov 1993 Pg. 01.D]
50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Anyone looking for the kind of comic brio that Dustin Hoffman and company brought to "Tootsie" will not find it here. [24 Nov 1993 Pg. F1]
50
The New Yorker
Terrence Rafferty
But the picture as a whole isn't in the class of "Tootsie" and "Some Like It Hot," mostly because its premise is sentimental, not cynical.

30
Austin Chronicle
Robert Faires
It's just raw, uncoated stupidity that sticks in your throat.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Now that Robin Williams has been emasculated--dangerously schizoid comic turned into nice-guy movie star--it isn't too surprising that a commercial hack like Chris Columbus would use him the way he does in this cutesy 1993 comedy: cutting between Williams trying on different voices rather than holding the camera on him as he lurches between these voices without notice.

20
Film Threat
Brad Laidman
Mrs. Doubtfire is overlong, barely funny, and a surprisingly bitter movie especially for a film aimed at children.


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