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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m

Summary With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean - Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, ide...

Written By: Avery Klein-Cloud

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m

Off and Running

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
8.5
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Summary With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean - Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, ide...

Written By: Avery Klein-Cloud

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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80
A tactful but probing and richly satisfying study of an entire family thrown into self-doubt by a teenager venturing into risky territory as she struggles to find her way.
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75
A patient, slightly stiff, often intensely moving portrait of a girl who believes her choices are literally black and white.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
75
The director-producer, Nicole Opper, has known Avery's Brooklyn family for years, which no doubt accounts for the film's intimacy.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
What at first looks like a heartwarming portrait of a highly blended modern family turns into a no less engrossing illustration of that situation's possible pitfalls in Off and Running.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
60
The role played by her camera in exacerbating Avery’s natural, adolescent self-absorption continues to nag; in the end, I was less concerned for the wildly indulged Avery -- whose own narration reveals a charismatic and extremely fortunate young woman -- than for the hearts breaking around her.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
60
Initially succeeds at accounting for the formation of this unlikely family unit, but as the subject’s life starts to unravel, cut-rate cable TV techniques (trifling montages, an overactive string score) deaden the full impact of her crisis.
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Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
8.5
83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
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83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company ITVS International
Release Date Jan 29, 2010
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline A Jewish, African-American Adopted Daughter...and her Search for Self
Website http://offandrunningthefilm.com/
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