Genre: Comedy, Kids & Family
Role: Olive
Director: Famke Janssen
Written by: Famke Janssen
Additional Cast: Bill Pullman, Marcia Cross
Box office: $4,975
Release Date: September 28, 2012 (Limited)
On DVD: November 19, 2012
Synopsis
Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive’s criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effort to give Bobby a proper chance in life.
Bringing Up Bobby is X-Men actress Famke Janssen’s directorial debut. Milla Jovovich confirmed her involvement in the film in June 2010 via her Twitter account @MillaJovovich:
I hve a comedy coming out next year called “dirty girl” and will b shooting another in july called “bringing up bobby”!
In summer 2010, the film was shot over 20 days in Oklahoma. The film was inspired by Janssen’s own perception as a European that came to live in the United States
Reception
The film has received mainly negative reviews, with a ‘rotten’ 17% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and a 4.9 rating on the Internet Movie Database.
Synopsis looked promising. But fell terribly flat of all expectations. We only watched it to the end hoping for something redeeming. Listed as a comedy, but not one thing comically amusing. It had the potential to be a realistic touching and poignant movie of a failing mother having to make a choice between staying with her son, or letting foster parents raise him. But her failings are so over the top as to be unbelievable. This can be acceptable if it was farcically funny… but it is not… just painful in the way that she raises her son in a way that he can do no wrong even though that is all he does is wrong. The mother’s accent is so fake that I thought it was part of her shtick. The actress, though born in Kiev does not have an accent in interviews, so had to create this one, but it just does not ring true. This is about as low as I’d rate any movie that I watched all the way through
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