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Tic Code, The
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 17 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Family/Kids
Written by: Polly Draper
Directed by: Gary Winick
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 4, 2000
DVD: February 27, 2001
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language
Starring Gregory Hines, Polly Draper, Chris Marquette, Desmond Robertson, James McCaffrey, Carol Kane, Bill Nunn, and Tony Shalhoub
A 10-year-old piano prodigy, against the wishes of his instructor, dreams of becoming a jazz pianist. This interest leads him to find a mentor in a famous jazz sax player who bonds with the boy because of their shared interest in jazz and because they each suffer from Tourette's Syndrome.
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What The Critics Said
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Film.com Tom Keogh
Director Gary Winick ("Sweet Nothing") ingeniously complements Draper's layered approach by modulating the film's energy in fascinating ways.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Starts out self-consciously but gets better as it goes along, winding up as affecting as it is illuminating.
Read Full Review >New York Post Hannah Brown
Sounds bleak, but turns out to be an absorbing and lively film.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Has the schematic feel of a disease-of-the-week TV movie, but the connections made between jazz and the minds that produce it turns the film into something much more intimate and compelling.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Badly lit and at times, awkwardly inspirational, yet there's real feeling in it, especially when the movie suggests that Tourette's syndrome is every bit as pure an expression of the spirit as it is a ''disorder.''
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The little film is made uniquely engaging by the performance of its young star, Chris Marquette.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
If it seems to have the ingredients of an after-school special, the performances take it to another level. Gut level.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
I value the flawed Tic Code over a good many relatively flawless features because it has more heart, more life, and more spunk.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Works better as a sociological study than as a gripping drama.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
An honest, plainspoken and unsentimental movie.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Laura's histrionics sometimes seem forced, and Hines has to struggle to be the heel the screenplay sometimes asks him to be.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Like most movies that examine specific ailments, this gawky, occasionally touching film has the feel of a dramatized case history whose purpose is to educate as much as it is to tell a story.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
What at first seems emotionally charged, ultimately comes off as contrived.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Preachy and predictable, an afterschool special in all but name.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Not entirely persuasive, not entirely schmaltzy, "The Tic Code" is one of those well-meant dramatizations... that mysteriously made it all the way to a theater near you.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Eve V. gave it a 9:
Interesting, moving, off-beat, multi-layered, uplifting, terrific soundtrack.
