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Tic Code, The
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Critic Score
Metascore: 64 Metascore out of 100
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9.0 out of 10
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MPAA 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.


GENRE(S): Family/Kids  
WRITTEN BY: Polly Draper  
DIRECTED BY: Gary Winick  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 27, 2001 
Video: February 27, 2001 
Theatrical: August 4, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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90
Film.com Tom Keogh
Director Gary Winick ("Sweet Nothing") ingeniously complements Draper's layered approach by modulating the film's energy in fascinating ways.
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88
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Reveals real feelings.
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80
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Starts out self-consciously but gets better as it goes along, winding up as affecting as it is illuminating.
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75
New York Post Hannah Brown
Sounds bleak, but turns out to be an absorbing and lively film.
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75
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.
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75
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.''
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75
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The little film is made uniquely engaging by the performance of its young star, Chris Marquette.
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75
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.
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70
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.
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63
Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Works better as a sociological study than as a gripping drama.
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63
Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
An honest, plainspoken and unsentimental movie.
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63
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.
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60
Village Voice Amy Taubin
A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie.
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50
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.
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50
LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
What at first seems emotionally charged, ultimately comes off as contrived.
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Preachy and predictable, an afterschool special in all but name.
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50
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.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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Eve V. gave it a 9:
Interesting, moving, off-beat, multi-layered, uplifting, terrific soundtrack.

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