The Oranges
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Metascore
42 out of 100

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  • Starring: Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester
  • Summary: David and Paige Walling and Terry and Cathy Ostroff are best friends and neighbors living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey. Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff, newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan, returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Rather than developing an interest in the successful son of her neighbors, Toby Walling, which would please both families, it's her parents' best friend David who captures Nina's attention. (ATO Pictures) … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    Oct 4, 2012
    63
    Maybe The Oranges does represent a middle-age male fantasy, but Laurie lets you see its pitfalls as well as its pleasures.
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Mary Pols
    Oct 4, 2012
    60
    Light as a feather, the movie is at times a modest pleasure, but inconsequential.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Eric Hynes
    Oct 2, 2012
    20
    Neither Janney nor Keener can rise above the rote hatefulness of their madwoman caricatures, whereas Laurie and Meester fare better at playing liberated dreamers who go against the dreaded grain. But shooting fish in a barrel tends to unintentionally conjure sympathy for the fish - or, in this case, for perfectly unhappy suburbanites.

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