Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Adore is, as my late mother would say in describing Sidney Sheldon novels, good trash.
– Christy Lemire,
RogerEbert.com,
7 Sep 2013
rotten:
Cast actresses with the skills that Naomi Watts and Robin Wright bring, give their obliviously icky story some arthouse visual lyricism, and you've got "Adore."
– Tom Russo,
Boston Globe,
12 Sep 2013
rotten:
This isn't an Oedipus complex. This is a Preposterous complex.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
19 Sep 2013
fresh:
Would Fontaine have made this film if the mothers looked like and were as old as Barbra Streisand and Kathy Bates and the sons weren't built like surfers? Of course not.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
4 Oct 2013
rotten:
With its soap-operatic performances, bonkbuster plotline and sparkling seafront setting, all 'Adore' really lacks is a cameo from Alf Stewart