The Oranges
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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

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
  1. NPR
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    Oct 5, 2012
    80
    What makes you sit up straight is that The Oranges takes seriously everyone's unhappiness, including the home-wrecker's, without letting anyone off the hook of responsibility for their own becalmed misery.
  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. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    Oct 5, 2012
    38
    What we are not spared is the sort of trite movie that lacks the backbone of any good dysfunctional-family comedy: a thread of the universal amid the absurdity.

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  1. MarcDoyle
    4
    The Orange had the makings of a really funny movie. Excellent comedic cast, potentially hysterical premise, festive setting... But the writers (and probably director) just blew it. I was almost rooting for this film to take off, but it just sat there and got a little boring. Leighton Meester was just unlikeable enough, Hugh Laurie was just passive enough, and Oliver Platt lacked the razor-sharp wit that writers from his other films and tv shows typically supply him with. And the Catherine Keener role?? The goats? I wish they had taken another run at her story.… Expand

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