Boundaries

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Boundaries

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2018,

1h 44m,

Comedy/

Drama

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Laura is a well-meaning single mother who is forced to drive her estranged pot-dealing father, Jack, from Texas to California, with her troubled son Henry along for the ride. While Jack uses Henry and the road trip to help him distribute his copious supply of marijuana, Laura finally confronts Leonard - her dead-beat ex-husband.

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Critics Consensus

Boundaries benefits from a stellar performance by the reliably excellent Christopher Plummer, but his work is overwhelmed by the mediocre movie that surrounds it.

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Mar 4, 2020

The father's chicanery is the brightest spot in a screenplay that makes the heroine a shrill stooge for everyone else's agenda as the protagonists bicker their way to self-discovery and mutual regard.

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Josh Kupecki

Austin Chronicle

Jul 12, 2018

3/5

Boundaries keeps the syrup on medium, and Plummer looks like he's having a ball. If you have a penchant for broken wing syndrome, you may want to let this one into your life.

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Jul 5, 2018

1.5/4

A movie with no reason to exist apart from setting into motion an otherwise interesting cast, led by Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Dec 10, 2020

Even before Boundaries' tired plot grinds into motion, your patience may already be worn thin by the introduction of only the first of its many grating characters.

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Matthew St. Clair

Cinema Sentries

Oct 8, 2020

Boundaries may not exactly cross any new ones. Yet, it still works as a piece of heartfelt escapism thanks to its simplistic storyline.

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Matt Cipolla

Film Monthly

Jul 24, 2020

1.5/5

It isn't that Boundaries is a long movie, not at all. It's that every moment feels like a quirky, twee cliché, straining so hard to be cute and never feeling remotely authentic.

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Finn G

Mar 19, 2019

did anyone really see this? GREAT MOVIE !!

Rey W

Jan 15, 2019

Road movie as family therapy: already seen too many times and in much more convincing forms. (Mauro Lanari)

Draco R

Oct 28, 2018

This just didn't work at all. This is one of Vera Farmiga's worst movies and performances. Long intervals of boredom along with poor dialogue, misjudged sequences. This movie had no chance really with this script. Its content is just to unrealistic. An 85 year old drug dealer (Plummer) , a ranty Vera who drifted into dire rant monologues along the way about her childhood, and the oddball but intelligent son basically take a road trip from Plummer's old folks home to Farmiga home and various characters (Peter Fonda, Christopher Lloyd) they meet along the way. That's it. Wasn't funny. Only Plummer gains any credit. As bad as it gets. This typifies how silly it was. After completing the journey home with Plummer, within minutes of meeting the sister, the sisters are doing a forced karaoke version of "Gloria" by Laura Branigan, which was ridiculous.

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Draco R

Oct 18, 2018

The performances here are played with candid honesty, without withholding the viewer of sappy emotional moments, that do occur but play for better effect with a story that surrounds it.

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Ron W

Aug 29, 2018

It's ok. Right now, however, amidst a dreary landscape of scandals, it's really good.

Aug 9, 2018

Wonderful ageist movie-making. My gerontologist agrees.

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Shana Feste

Director

Vera Farmiga

Laura Jaconi

Christopher Plummer

Jack Jaconi

Lewis MacDougall

Henry

Bobby Cannavale

Leonard

Kristen Schaal

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Synopsis

Laura is a well-meaning single mother who is forced to drive her estranged pot-dealing father, Jack, from Texas to California, with her troubled son Henry along for the ride. While Jack uses Henry and the road trip to help him distribute his copious supply of marijuana, Laura finally confronts Leonard - her dead-beat ex-husband.

Director: Shana Feste
Producer: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Chris Ferguson, Bailey Conway
Screenwriter: Shana Feste
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Stage 6 Films, Oddfellows Entertainment, Automatik Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Drug Material|Nude Sketches|Some Sexual References)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 22, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 16, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $698.4K
Runtime: 1h 44m

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