Adore

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Adore

R,

2013,

1h 51m,

Drama

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34%

74 Reviews

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41%

5,000+ Ratings

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34%

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74 Reviews

41%

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5,000+ Ratings

Two lifelong best friends (Robin Wright, Naomi Watts) each begin a steamy affair with the other's son, but trouble begins to brew when one of the two young men desires a lover his own age.

Critics Consensus

Naomi Watts and Robin Wright give it their all, but they can't quite make Adore's trashy, absurd plot believable.

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Sarah Mankoff

Film Comment Magazine

Nov 4, 2013

The film never musters the humor nor the sex appeal to carry off its study of ultra-Freudian arrested development.

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Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Oct 10, 2013

1/5

With its soap-operatic performances, bonkbuster plotline and sparkling seafront setting, all 'Adore' really lacks is a cameo from Alf Stewart

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Wesley Morris

Grantland

Oct 4, 2013

Would Fontaine have made this film if the mothers looked like and were as old as Barbra Streisand and Kathy Bates and the sons weren't built like surfers? Of course not.

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Erin Tatum

Bitch Flicks

Jul 8, 2026

Even if they had to jump through some stereotypical hoops, it’s nice to see relationships between older women and younger men taken seriously and given a legitimate future.

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Glenn Dunks

Glenn Dunks

Jul 19, 2020

C+

Its Australian title, 'Adoration', sounds as flat on the tongue and unsure of itself as the actual film. Anne Fontaine never finds the right voice for her film's message and ends up with this disappointing, albeit handsomely made, effort.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Aug 23, 2019

There's a fascinating depth to this challenging piece, even if you are laughing when you're not supposed to.

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Anakin S

Nov 12, 2018

This film was unwatchable.

Nov 4, 2018

Nice to see a movie that shows women over 50 with an active sexuality. And all the people criticizing this movie - the male equivalent has been made for years and years and years. 'Bout time we see the reverse!

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George G

Oct 8, 2018

Delicate, excellent actresses and actors, spontaneous and authentic

Theodore L

Sep 26, 2018

When a movie so firmly rejects to release on the level of plot, what we are left with is tone. "Adore" is about that being in a place where nobody knows you or wants to know you, and you are thumped by your nothingness. There was a world where it was important that Naomi Watts was Naomi Watts and Robin Wright was Robin Wright. In the ocean among friends, it is not even essential that Lil be Lil and Roz be Roz.

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Theodore S

Sep 6, 2018

Any critic attempting to accuse this of trying to come off as a feminist manifesto says more about the critic than the film. The two female lead characters are clearly hiding the relationships throughout, even leaving the impression with one attempted amorous interloper that they are engaged in a lesbian relationship so he can't intrude on what is going on. They are also intermittently appalled at and ashamed of giving in to their nearly incestuous-tinged desires. It's not a great film nor is it a bad one, I enjoyed it at least two stars worth I mean who can pass up great sex scenes involving Watts and Wright?

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Albus S

Sep 4, 2018

What the actual fuck am I watching in?? Ohhhh I forgot I was in alabama?!?! What the actual fuck. Y'all PerVy ass motherfuckers need to stop making movies. You're mediocre scenery is not distracting me from the incest ass shit. Miss me with this corny ass fake funny bullshit. These women are pedos and y'all can fuck off. WHAT IF THEY GOT PREGNANT???!!! BETTA MISS ME WITH THAT SHIT?!!!! WAIT HOLD UP THEY JUST MENTIONED HIS AGE?!?!!!! THESE MOTHAFUCKING PERVES WAITED UNTIL THE BOYS WERE 18?!!!! FUCK ALL YALL HOES ? FUCK BITCHES GET MONEY ALSO DID THE MUM AND SON AMOST KISS?! MOTHAFUCKING INSEST UP IN THIS BITCH

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Anne Fontaine

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Robin Wright

Roz

Naomi Watts

Lil

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Synopsis

Two lifelong best friends (Robin Wright, Naomi Watts) each begin a steamy affair with the other's son, but trouble begins to brew when one of the two young men desires a lover his own age.

Director: Anne Fontaine
Producer: Philippe Carcassonne, Andrew Mason, Michel Feller, Barbara Gibbs
Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton
Distributor: Exclusive Releasing
Production Co: Screen Australia, Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma, Hopscotch Features
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 6, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 6, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $317.1K
Runtime: 1h 51m

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