A Kid Like Jake

    A Kid Like Jake
    2018

    Synopsis

    On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.

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    Cast

    • Claire DanesAlex Wheeler
    • Jim ParsonsGreg Wheeler
    • Leo James DavisJake Wheeler
    • Ann DowdCatherine
    • Octavia SpencerJudy
    • Priyanka Chopra JonasAmal
    • Cindy CheungCorinne
    • Julia ChanMichelle
    • Shaunette Renée WilsonDream Mom
    • Kelly DeadmonCynthia Hedwall

    Recommandations

    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      It’s remarkable how engaging and light on its feet the director and cast are able to keep this subject matter, how much permission he gives them to f*ck up and try again.
    • 80

      Wall Street Journal

      A daring little drama with a heavyweight cast, a gracefully delivered message and a hellish problem — specifically, other people.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      [A] simply lovely comedy-drama.
    • 75

      The Associated Press

      A Kid Like Jake might not be especially cinematic, but it is profound in its simplicity and truthfulness about what real fights sound like and what real lives look like.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      Though the film makes the important point that even the most liberal parents' acceptance of a child's difference may be repression by another name, it fails to excite sufficient sympathy for its broadly drawn principal characters.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      If Howard and Pearle’s idea was to show how an extended argument devolves into the worst values of a previous generation — lashing out with implicit homophobia, resentment, and misogyny in the film’s shouty, snotty, excessively busy final third — then it comes too late here, before being patly resolved. A sharper drama would have made it the focus.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      Directed by Silas Howard from a screenplay by Daniel Pearle, who adapted his own stage play, A Kid Like Jake is humane, compassionate and strangely detached, almost to the point of inconsequentiality.
    • 50

      New York Post

      Danes and Parsons are a weird pairing, who carry their TV personas with them like tote bags. Their “Homeland” and “Big Bang Theory” shticks don’t quite click. Even so, when Danes’ mother comes to realize that her sweet kid is more than just a talking point, she’ll have you wiping away tears.

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    • Danka S. Kojić