Rotten
The amalgams of TV stereotypes that satirize foreign and regional cultures are embarrassing.
Michael Sragow, New Yorker
North
Ever wonder what your life would be like with different parents? A boy named North did.
1994 · 1h 27m · PG
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Directed by
Rob Reiner
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North
Overview
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.
Director and cast
- Rob Reiner Director
- Elijah Wood as North
- Bruce Willis as Benevolent advisors / Narrator voice
- Jason Alexander as North's Dad
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as North's Mom
- Jon Lovitz as Arthur Belt
- Alan Arkin as Judge Buckle
- Dan Aykroyd as Pa Tex
- Kathy Bates as Alaskan Mom
- Graham Greene as Alaskan Dad
- Faith Ford as Donna Nelson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
12%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's a prime example of what can happen when hip, slightly cynical establishment filmmakers try to make a deeply sentimental movie.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
How could director Rob Reiner, whose touch for what pleases a mass audience is usually unfailing, have strayed this far?
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
The intrinsic failure of Alan Zweibel and Andrew Scheinman's script is that it tips its hand from the start.
Leonard Klady, Variety
Rotten
Reiner is undecided just how fantastically he should treat this ludicrous plotline. Added to which there's a dire musical number, a silly thriller subplot, and much maudlin didacticism from narrator Willis in various guardian angel (dis)guises. Misery.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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