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Rich Kids

Play trailer Poster for Rich Kids PG,  1979,  1h 41m,  Comedy/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 71% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 43% 50+ Ratings Popcornmeter
71% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 43% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
A boy (Jeremy Levy) and a girl (Trini Alvarado), both from New York's Upper West Side, work through her parents' divorce.

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Judith Martin Washington Post May 9, 2017
Heart warming is not really the term ... "Insufferable" would be more like it. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Jul 9, 2025
Mostly comedic, but also insightfully touching at times, this sole produced screenplay by playwright Judith Ross didn’t make much of a splash upon release in 1979, but it retains an offbeat charm. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Feb 23, 2021
C+
Slow moving drama/comedy. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jan 18, 2021
3.5/4
...a slow-moving yet increasingly absorbing drama... Go to Full Review
Ellen Cooney Sojourner Aug 15, 2019
[Rick Kids] is a sensitive, touching, and beautifully humane film about familial interactions. Judith Ross' script, an exercise in the often absurd and always credible ways parents love their children, is full of a rare kind of tenderness and sympathy. Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Jun 8, 2016
3/4
even when the film feels a bit sluggish, there is always a moment of insight or humor just around the corner to perk things up Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Robert M. Young

Director

Trini Alvarado

Franny Philips

Jeremy Levy

Jamie Harris

Kathryn Walker

Madeline Philips

John Lithgow

Paul Philips

Terry Kiser

Ralph Harris

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Rich Kids

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Movie Info

Synopsis A boy (Jeremy Levy) and a girl (Trini Alvarado), both from New York's Upper West Side, work through her parents' divorce.
Director
Robert M. Young
Producer
George W. George, Michael Hausman
Screenwriter
Judith Ross
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 25, 2003
Runtime
1h 41m
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