Synopsis
Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, The Best and the Brightest centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the lengths they must go to in order to get their five-year-old daughter into school.
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Cast
- Neil Patrick HarrisJeff
- Bonnie SomervilleSamantha
- Peter SerafinowiczClark
- Bridget ReganRobin
- Jenna SternKatharine Heilmann
- John HodgmanHenry
- Kate MulgrewThe Player's Wife
- Nina HodorukUpper East Side Mom
- Michael ElianMiddle Eastern Bag Dealer
- Suzanne SavoyChapin Headmistress
Recommandations
- 65
Movieline
The goof on New York's awful elite only gets grimmer and less viable as the film goes on. - 60
Time Out
The Best and the Brightest's sharp one-liners and strong cast, especially McDonald's gleefully lecherous performance as an unabashed Republican pervert, help make it a sturdy bit of subculture-tweaking silliness. - 50
The A.V. Club
The farce withers away when it should be expanding. - 50
Miami Herald
Amusing at times but never more than a modest diversion, lacking the cleverness and imagination required to turn it into more than a one-joke movie. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Unfortunately, writer-director Josh Shelov's sendup of the Manhattan private school culture flies off its comic rails after an engaging start, never to land back on solid ground. - 38
Slant Magazine
Writer-director Josh Shelov (working with co-writer Michael Jaeger) is trolling in fertile, easy territory, but rather than mine the subject for what it's worth, he resorts to depressingly cheap mistaken-identity shenanigans and raunchy "he-milk" gags. - 30
Boxoffice Magazine
All you need to know about this low-budget farce is that Amy Sedaris costars (yippee!) and New York pol Anthony Weiner would feel right at home with the sexting subplot (eeeuw!). - 30
Variety
Offering a fitfully funny sitcom plot clumsily stretched to 90 minutes, then goosed with increasingly tiresome doses of smuttiness and political incorrectness, The Best and the Brightest is neither.
