In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Too much of "Any Day Now" founders in cliche and predictable table-turning and point-scoring instead of building a set of complicated characters at odds with a biased system.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan 2013
rotten:
The growing community of gay parents deserves a better reflection of their struggles than a kitschy "Kramer vs. Kramer."
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
20 Dec 2012
rotten:
Switches between a few primary modes -- agenda-mentary, romance, courtroom drama, tearjerker -- without engaging very convincingly in any of them.
– Claude Peck,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
20 Dec 2012
rotten:
Generally abysmal.
– John Anderson,
Newsday,
20 Dec 2012
fresh:
Gets its point across, and its sad drama. And it spotlights a marvelous performance by Alan Cumming.