SummaryA young, hipster entrepreneur (Nick Kroll) crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister (Rose Byrne), brother-in-law (Bobby Cannavale) and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibili... Read More
Directed By:Ross Katz
Written By:Nick Kroll, Jeff Cox, Liz Flahive
Adult Beginners
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Mixed or Average
57
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Generally Favorable
6.4
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48% Positive
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Mar 30, 2015
83
Katz, with the help of an inspired cast and an emotionally intelligent and mature screenplay, has succeeded in depicting the trials and tribulations of adults who, all for respectfully different yet equally weighty reasons, often make a three-year-old the most mature person in the room.
Apr 23, 2015
70
The kind of comedy that goes down easy even as it looks at the hard stuff.
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Oct 5, 2015
9
"Adult Beginners" has enough going on to work as a mostly unchallenging time-passer, and nothing more. Watch this movie online ****/watch-2a23ce-Adult-Beginners-movie-online-free-putlocker.html
Apr 27, 2015
6
An easy comfortable film that is some what forgettable but for the most part feels genuine even when the ending begins to become predictable. The two leads make the story work.
Apr 24, 2015
63
If you’re a big booster of any of the lead actors (I’m something of a Cannavale partisan myself), this will be worth your time.
Apr 23, 2015
60
Adult Beginners presents itself less as humor than as a study in Gen-X sociology and psychology. What happens when people raised in relative ease and who expect to live an even better life than their parents are left emotionally unequipped for reality? It might be touching. It might even be important. But it’s not exactly a lot of laughs.
Apr 22, 2015
58
Adult Beginners, by contrast, is mostly just… nice. Neither dramatic enough to qualify as drama nor amusing enough to completely succeed as comedy, it’s the kind of movie that coasts on pleasantness, content to elicit a few smiles before disappearing from memory banks.
Apr 22, 2015
50
The pleasant but forgettable Adult Beginners strains a bit too hard for a happy ending, and tends to lay on the schmaltz and metaphors (like the swim class that gives the film its title) with a trowel.
Apr 23, 2015
40
There’s nothing here that actually digs deep enough into any of the films’ surface-level concerns — maturity, responsibility, parenting, siblinghood — to snap the movie out of its own slumber.
Sep 27, 2015
4
Even though I expected a bit more from this movie as I like the leads, to me it was quite forgettable, and somewhat boring at moments. Maybe because I was excited more about the comedy part, which was quite boring to me here, I don't know, but I think this movie is worth watching only if you don't have anything else to see.
Production Company:
- Burn Later Productions
- Duplass Brothers Productions
- Good At Business
- Good At Business
- Through Films
Release Date:Apr 24, 2015
Duration:1 h 32 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Some people just can't handle growing up
