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- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
Summary Laura (Vera Farmiga) is a single mother living in Seattle, who has a constant need to put others & animals before her. When her estranged, criminally-minded father Jack (Christopher Plummer) is kicked out of his retirement home, Laura agrees to drive him down the coast to live with her sister JoJo (Kristen Schaal) in LA. Along for the ri...
Directed By: Shana Feste
Written By: Shana Feste
- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
Boundaries
50
4.7
Where to Watch
Summary Laura (Vera Farmiga) is a single mother living in Seattle, who has a constant need to put others & animals before her. When her estranged, criminally-minded father Jack (Christopher Plummer) is kicked out of his retirement home, Laura agrees to drive him down the coast to live with her sister JoJo (Kristen Schaal) in LA. Along for the ri...
Directed By: Shana Feste
Written By: Shana Feste
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
50
38% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
46% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
50
38% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
46% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Boundaries, to be sure, delivers you to a place you know you’re going, but there should always be room for a movie that does that this well.
It’s another one of those films, like “Book Club,” in which the cast far outshines the material.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 User Ratings
4.7
40% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
15% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
45% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 User Ratings
4.7
40% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
15% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
45% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
I realize people are boycotting this film because of peter fonda which doesn't really make sense because this is a movie about animal rescuing and peter fonda is in it for like three minutes. so a lot of trolls reviewing per donald trump jr. but its a really sweet film with great performances. made me laugh out loud a ton and even got a little teary. i'm a huge animal lover so maybe that helped. but it was really good!
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The dialogue and performances are far more interesting than the lazy, cliche-ridden story Feste cooked up.
Filled with lovable eccentrics, Boundaries tries too hard to avoid the commonplace as its jolts erratically down the well-travelled, heavily signposted route that is the big-hearted road-movie.
Boundaries is earnest in way that partly makes up for the overbroad characters and stale setup.
A fantastic cast doing fine work can't make this feel-good hokum believable.
A first-rate cast enriches the otherwise dismal Boundaries, a misguided combination road movie and domestic comedy-drama that otherwise qualifies as a box office also-ran.
Boundaries: Where? (Review)
Cinematography: 7.321/10 Decent for the story and feels good for the audience.
Costume Design: 6.314/10 Chill and comfortable.
Film Editing: 7.561/10 Film editing helps bring about the effects - the feel good - in Boundaries: the rest comes from the journeying with these acting partners in the story.
Make-up and Hair-styling: - /10
Sound Editing: - /10
Visual Effects: - /10
Story: 6.231/10 Boundaries reminds me of a fused-tempered Weeds and Superbad except without any alcohol. The story is slightly comical and pleasant though doesn't seem to over reach for anything.
Acting: 8.123/10 The acting is decent.
Personal: The best part of the film concerns the journeying. I really appreciate the driving scenes: the audience is given views a passenger might have staring out of a window during a car ride. It's a chill film that discusses daddy issues, child rearing, and normalcy. Nothing about the film is overwrought.
Overall: 7.11/10
-K.D.
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“Boundaries” is one of those movies that have a super cast with each individually enjoyable to watch and when they have interaction your eyes and ears will be glued to the screen. It is also a movie that has an equal amount of good and boring moments.
It is a road trip with Grandfather Jack (Christopher Plummer), his adult divorced daughter Laura (Vera Farmiga) and his grandson Henry (Lewis MacDougall) going to see his other daughter Jojo (Kristen Schaal). Both daughters are emotional wrecks because of their upbringing while the grandson is being expelled from school for drawing nude pictures of his teachers with the males all having extremely small ****. Oh yes, Grandfather Jack is being thrown out of the old folks home where he has been living and, unknown to them, growing marijuana and wants to sell. Oh yes Laura hasn’t met a stray dog that she didn’t love and take in whether at home or while driving in a car.
From all this a road trip takes place so the grandfather can make stops, sell the post and give money to Laura to send Henry to an expensive private school and in return be able to live with Laura in her big enough house while his other daughter lives in a studio apartment.
We meet Jack’s friends, hippie art forger Christopher Lloyd, wealthy friend Peter Fonda (looking good!) plus Leonard, (Bobby Cannavale) Henry’s father who left him and his mother years ago.
It takes an hour and 44 minutes to get everyone’s problems straightened out and have a ‘Hollywood’ ending.
Plummer is a joy to watch, more so then when he was young and I have yet to see Farmiga give a bad performance. Lewis MacDougal’s Henry seems natural though he certainly isn’t a ‘normal’ kid.
“Boundaries” is a good enough picture to watch in an air-conditioned theatre when it is 92 degrees out with high humidity.
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The colour grading is so bad I had to stop watching. Why films like this think it's a good idea to make me feel like I have cataracts throughout is beyond me. I'm guessing the film wasn't dull enough on its own.
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Production Company
Automatik Entertainment,
Oddfellows Entertainment,
Stage 6 Films
Release Date Jun 22, 2018
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
Tagline With Every Road Trip Comes Baggage
Awards
Women's Image Network Awards
• 3 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Humanitas Prize
• 1 Nomination
