Just add chaos laughter awkwardness mistakes love.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Gustavo Quiroz, Julianna Gamiz, Octavia Spencer |
Director |
Sean Anders |
Screenplay | Sean Anders, John Morris |
Music | Michael Andrews |
Cinematography | Brett Pawlak |
Editing | Brad Wilhite |
Made in | 2018 |
Produced by | Paramount Pictures |
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Genre | Comedy |
Language | Frequent moderate impact use of strong language to express anger,anxiety and frustration by strange family lifestyles where adopted kids and foster parents are battling to adjust within context. |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | Frequent moderate impact violence demostrated as follows: when the boy was hit by a basket ball accidentally and his nose ended up bleeding and when Eli and Pete attacked Jacob. |
Prejudice | Infrequent low impact prejudice but not require consumer advice |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | Universal, complex and light hearted themes of challenges of parenting adopted kids, family court proceedings and rebellious adolescent with a painful ubringing. Themes are mitigated by positive outcomes and have no sense of threat and they unlikely to harm and upset the 13 year old because they are cognitively matured to handle the context. |
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PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual material, language and some drug references |
Runtime | 119 |
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Suggested age limit 13 + |
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Positive role models |
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Drinking, drugs, smoking |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
24.com Ilan Preskovsky It doesn’t matter how preposterous or obvious or obnoxious certain elements of Instant Family may be, Rose Byrne always makes sure that it’s worth watching. | 10 | |
Metacritic.com 24 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 88 critics | 14 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Instant Family may not quite capture the complexity of real-life adoption, but fittingly for the unconditional bond it honors, this flawed yet well-intentioned dramedy is ultimately worth the investment. | 16 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 12 | |
CommonSenseMedia Michael Ordona Heartwarming family dramedy has some mature moments. | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
Metacritic.com users 18 users | 14 | |
Rottentomatoes users 879 users | 15 | |
IMDB 3367 Netizens | 15 | |
The Movie DB Community | 15 | |
Average .. 69% | 14 |