Synopsis
Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive's criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effort to give Bobby a proper chance in life.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Milla JovovichOlive
- Spencer ListBobby
- Bill PullmanKent
- Rory CochraneWalt
- Marcia CrossMary
- Lauren AnallaDarlene
- Don KruizingaCar Salesman
- Dalton OliveEarl
- Ana AndersonDet. Winters
- Renata BatistaMaid
Recommandations
- 75
Observer
Sensitively acted, carefully written and directed with heartfelt compassion, Bringing Up Bobby is an engrossing little independent film made on an austere budget in 22 days. - 42
The A.V. Club
Bringing Up Bobby centers around a mugging performance by Jovovich, who can't ground the film's attempts to tie together sentiments from "Paper Moon" and "Miss Saigon." - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Unfortunately, the alternately melodramatic and comic Bringing Up Bobby fails to impress, despite a showy turn by Milla Jovovich in a sharp departure from her usual zombie butt-kicking in the Resident Evil series. - 40
New York Daily News
Janssen's affectionate, almost-1970s-style view of innocents-at-large may not be polished, but earns points for being from the heart. - 40
The New York Times
Despite Ms. Janssen's fine taste in music - it's lovely to hear Jorma Kaukonen's "Genesis" on the soundtrack - her film's downfall was ensured by a leading lady who will always be more credible chasing zombies than the American dream. - 30
Village Voice
The movie permanently downshifts to moralizing melodrama and retrograde Stella Dallas–like maternal sacrifice when Bobby has an accidental run-in with real estate magnate Kent (Bill Pullman). - 30
Variety
A technically competent but painfully broad dramedy about a larcenous mother-and-son duo in the Midwest. This gender-flipped, latter-day "Paper Moon" lacks that film's judicious restraint, among other things, alternating hick Americana cartoonishness with maudlin appeals to the tear ducts. - 25
Slant Magazine
Just an extended dramatization of the 1980s anti-drug PSA that memorably cautioned "I learned it by watching you!"
