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- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 30 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 30 m
Summary An estranged couple reunite in a Florida police station to help find their missing teenage son.
Directed By: Kenny Leon
Written By: Christopher Demos-Brown
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 30 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 30 m
American Son
34
6.3
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Summary An estranged couple reunite in a Florida police station to help find their missing teenage son.
Directed By: Kenny Leon
Written By: Christopher Demos-Brown
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Any failure to expand into cinema's possibilities is overshadowed by the uniformly strong performances in a four-person cast led by an excellent Kerry Washington.
American Son never quite lapses into terrible, but as with a play that needs another week of out of town tryouts, it “never gets on its feet,” either.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
18% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
23% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
18% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
23% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
I am a mother of a mixed son. He is to young to understand the harshness of the world right now. This movie really touched me.
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At some point you’re tempted to stop following the narrative and start keeping score between husband and wife. It’s a good debate. It just isn’t much of a movie.
The overly finished language and theatrical intensity levels that might be potently effective onstage lose any pretense of naturalism under the camera’s unblinking gaze.
All these “what incredible irony!” moments are designed to…well, I’m not quite sure. The movie’s final line, an appropriation of the dying words of a black man killed by police, is an exploitative and cheap reversal that legitimately addresses precisely nothing.
Perhaps writer Demos-Brown and director Kenny Leon hope to tap into our collective consciences, but it’s difficult to be moved by such hackneyed, all-too convenient storytelling and overwrought sentimentality.
It’s a deafening misfire, like the most unbearable, unwatchable daytime TV soap filled with the most awful self-conscious hamminess, parodic emoting and pointless shouting-at-each-other acting.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Movie was so horrible!! If you want to hear two people bicker for an hour and half tune in.
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Without a doubt one of the biggest waste of times I've ever experienced. Nothing but race propaganda the entire movie. The trailer does not even remotely make this movie seem like what it is.
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