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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Passion River Films
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Passion River Films
  • 1 h 14 m

Summary With levity and sadness, two grown children and their aging parents struggle with the decision whether the older generation should stay in the house where they have lived for fifty years. Shot in the house where the director’s parents lived for close to fifty years shortly after they moved out, the film’s semi-autobiographical story is m...

Directed By: Richard Ledes

Written By: Richard Ledes

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Passion River Films
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Passion River Films
  • 1 h 14 m

Fred Won't Move Out

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary With levity and sadness, two grown children and their aging parents struggle with the decision whether the older generation should stay in the house where they have lived for fifty years. Shot in the house where the director’s parents lived for close to fifty years shortly after they moved out, the film’s semi-autobiographical story is m...

Directed By: Richard Ledes

Written By: Richard Ledes

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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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0% Negative
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70
Oct 23, 2012
The bigger issue is that the film is more a slice of life than a real journey. It's an intriguing slice, but the real depth is in the performances, not the story. [18 Oct 2012]
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 20, 2012
Except for a subplot about a missing cat that suggests that Fred may be considerably dottier than he appears, the movie gets almost everything right about the uncomfortable moment when grown children are forced to be their parents' parents.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 18, 2012
Mostly, it captures how old age decimates even the people who don't suffer from it.
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63
Sep 21, 2012
This carefully observed slice of life is dragged down by the dreary and distracting hand-held camerawork.
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60
Sep 18, 2012
Irregularly spiked with some droll sitcom-style humor, this thoughtful but exceedingly modest miniature will be best nursed within the festival circuit.
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50
Oct 10, 2012
The film is not a compelling drama so much as a poignant observation of a sad situation.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 27, 2012
It also points to one of the movie's most nagging problems: Stuck somewhere between personal memoir and universal truth, Fred Won't Move Out ends up being neither.
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Production Company Footnote Four
Release Date Sep 21, 2012
Duration 1 h 14 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/fredwontmoveout
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Awards

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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