SummaryDavid and Paige Walling and Terry and Cathy Ostroff are best friends and neighbors living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey. Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff, newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan, returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Rather than developing an interest in the succe... Read More
Directed By:Julian Farino
Written By:Ian Helfer, Jay Reiss
The Oranges
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Mixed or Average
46
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Generally Favorable
6.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
17% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
65% Mixed
15 Reviews
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17% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Oct 5, 2012
80
What makes you sit up straight is that The Oranges takes seriously everyone's unhappiness, including the home-wrecker's, without letting anyone off the hook of responsibility for their own becalmed misery.
Dec 5, 2012
60
The storyline delicately tiptoes along the line of good taste and is embroidered by a first-rate cast. Still, a knockout moment is missing.
User score
Generally Favorable
47% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
47% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Sep 10, 2013
10
Watched this movie recently and was really disappointed by the critical reception of this excellent film! Sure the premise is a little disconcerting at first, but I was really won over by the genuine nature of the central relationship, and the lack of understanding from the rest of the cast felt immensely real. Every time I felt myself becoming frustrated with a character I was able to step back and see the real genuine places they were coming from. Phenomenal writing, passable direction, A+ cast, and while the music made things a little corny here and there I feel sure in saying this is my one of my top movies to come out this year. More people should watch this film!
Jun 4, 2013
4
I expected a comedy, maybe my mistake. The acting didn’t quite convinced me but what I really dislike is the plot, at the end it becomes a simple drama with the typical life-teaching “never know where life’s gonna take you”.
Oct 6, 2012
58
What starts off as a neighborhood scandal becomes a liberating thing for everyone involved - an attitude that seems as if it's trying to be oh so European, and might have been had the director, Julian Farino, not been working so hard to convince us of the Deep Inner Goodness of everyone involved.
Oct 5, 2012
50
While it claims to be exported from New Jersey, The Oranges is peddling an alien motto: When life hands you lemons, fuhgeddaboudit.
Oct 4, 2012
40
How could a movie starring Hugh Laurie, Oliver Platt, Allison Janney and Catherine Keener go so wrong? That is the mystery behind The Oranges, a dysfunctional-family comedy - excuse the cliché - that backs away in terror from its potentially explosive subject.
Oct 2, 2012
40
The Oranges, an extremely dry comedy directed by Julian Farino, is kind of like a takedown of the suburbs written by the people who designed the menu at Olive Garden: It's inoffensive, forgettable, and you don't actually have to chew anything.
Oct 3, 2012
0
As much as the dialogue in the film voices an attitude of self-liberation and champions the positives of severing accepted social constraints, it seems to be constantly taking one step forward and two steps back.
Oct 11, 2012
4
The Orange had the makings of a really funny movie. Excellent comedic cast, potentially hysterical premise, festive setting... But the writers (and probably director) just blew it. I was almost rooting for this film to take off, but it just sat there and got a little boring. Leighton Meester was just unlikeable enough, Hugh Laurie was just passive enough, and Oliver Platt lacked the razor-sharp wit that writers from his other films and tv shows typically supply him with. And the Catherine Keener role?? The goats? I wish they had taken another run at her story.
May 27, 2024
0
What a shameless and disgusting bigoted ageist trash of a movie! Horrible, cringe and unwatchable!
Production Company:
- ATO Pictures
- Olympus Pictures
- Likely Story
- FilmNation Entertainment
Release Date:Oct 5, 2012
Duration:1 h 30 m
Rating:R
Tagline:It's about to get juicy.
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Awards
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
• 1 Nomination
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 1 Nomination
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Nomination
