SummaryPeace, Love, & Misunderstanding is a comedy about an uptight New York City lawyer who takes her two spirited teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse in the countryside for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets, and self-discovery. (IFC Films)
Directed By:Bruce Beresford
Written By:Christina Mengert, Joseph Muszynski
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
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45
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
24% Positive
6 Reviews
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56% Mixed
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Jun 13, 2012
75
Pop songs, beautiful bucolic scenery and the joy of watching Jane Fonda fizz in a fun role that looks like a no-brainer are elements that a skilled director like Australia's polished Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) blends with perfection.
Jun 7, 2012
63
A crowd-pleasing comedy that isn't going to win any awards for originality.
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32% Positive
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3 Ratings
Apr 3, 2021
4
This movie is a Hollywood cliché at almost every turn the character of the grandma a quirky and irresponsible mother to her child an uptight, calculated and independent person. the children one that is awkward and creative and the other is smart, well spoken and sarcastic. tell me you haven't seen that before. the storyline is basic and predictable they fix their problems learn to love blah blah. the only redemption of this movie being Elizabeth Olsen's ability to breathe life into her undeveloped character and the presentation of the film inside the movie as well as its a comforting family watch. Other than this the second best acting scene was of that man in the back of the butchers shops facial expressions.
Sep 20, 2012
3
Yow, this was a dreary, long, contentious ride. A modern story about families in a culture clash is my thing, but this had no one in it to root for. Everyone was an unyielding stereotype and stayed that way against all odds. Drippy script, predictable traumas, mediocre acting. And it is a marketing ploy to call it a comedy. City people meet tie-dyed, small town inhabitants.....with indoor chickens.... surely this is hilarious. IT is not. I gave it a three for nice scenery and reasonable photography.
Jun 7, 2012
55
None of it quite works, but it seems Beresford did his damnedest to try to pull it off.
Jun 7, 2012
50
Stylistically a formulaic, middle-drawer television movie about intergenerational strife and forgiveness. Every plot turn is groaningly predictable. But at least the lead performances set off sparks.
Jun 4, 2012
50
What saves the film from being simply a schematic mother-daughter reconciliation drama is both the reluctance and prickliness that Catherine Keener brings to her character.
Jun 7, 2012
25
Me, I'm a Johnny Rotten man, so this limp culture-clash comedy with a heart of patchouli just made me want to stab my eyeballs out.
Jun 16, 2012
3
It's hard to believe (and rather depressing) that a director who created such a beautiful, subtle movie as Tender Mercies could have devolved into one who creates such over-the-top, un-involving charactertures and stereotypes as the ones portrayed in this movie. It just goes to show (as if we didn't know) that Hollywood can turn anyone into a philistine. It was interesting to see Jane Fonda show such a commitment to her character, even when that character is a characterture (in fact, a characterture of her own youthful characterture, hence a meta-characterture). Not a great job of acting, but an impressively unselfconscious performance nonetheless. On the plus side, Elizabeth Olsen confirms the fact that even in an underdeveloped and stereotypical role she has a great movie presence (and is more than a credible actress). On the other hand, Jerry Garcia must be turning over in his grave (he was buried, wasn't he?) at the surfeit of tie-dying in this movie. Finally, the most egregious sin of the movie is the underlying Hollywood "lesson" that "romance conquers all"-- substantive political differences, bad parenting, bad hair-dos, everything is secondary to romance. And here I was trying to find the meaning of life in Nietzsche, Marx, **** it was all there in a Beatles lyric. "All you need is love"!
Production Company:
- BCDF Pictures
Release Date:Jun 8, 2012
Duration:1 h 36 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Life is a journey. Family is a trip.
Awards
Newport Beach Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
