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Ashby

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Ashby

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Released Sep 25, 2015

1h 42m

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Drama

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After moving to a new town with his single mother (Sarah Silverman), a teen (Nat Wolff) befriends a retired CIA assassin (Mickey Rourke) who teaches him valuable life lessons.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Mickey Rourke is a grizzled ex-CIA assassin improbably mentoring Nat Wolff's misfit teen in this lukewarm genre jumble.

Sep 27, 2015

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Chris Nashawaty

Entertainment Weekly

Folks buying a ticket to Ashby hoping to see a film about the late-great director of Being There and Harold and Maude are about to be sorely disappointed. So is everyone else.

Rated: C-

Sep 25, 2015

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

It's a quirky life-lessons setup that, while occasionally earning deadpan laughs, tries for but never achieves Wes Anderson's patented mixture of the archly witty and the sneakily emotional.

Sep 25, 2015

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Mae Abdulbaki

Movies with Mae

Ashby has occasional heartwarming moments but isn't well-rounded enough to understand its own journey.

Rated: 2.5/5

Apr 10, 2019

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

While a pleasing attempt at a feature debut, it's hard to imagine Ashby will have too much staying power past its theatrical release.

Nov 9, 2018

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Dawn Day

Bust Magazine

Despite the many winding roads it goes down, Ashby is funny throughout and easy to watch.

Mar 10, 2017

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erdene c

A good movie with lessons for teenage boys

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/23/24

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Uynga U

Emma did such an good job

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/23/24

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Munkhjargal A

This movie is about the life of mother and daughter. she was a teenage girl who could do anything. but he meets a retired hit man in a new town and befriends him, making him realize that the life of a hit man is a real mess.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/23/24

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Bahad j

This idea of the filmmaker made the movie more accessible to more people.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/22/24

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isla s

This is a quirky, fairly amusing watch. The characters are good and it has a bit of a comic book type feel - its somewhat imaginative I suppose. I'm not much keen on Sarah Silverman but that can't be helped. While the plot is unlikely, its a fairly easy and entertaining watch, so I suppsoe I'd give it a 7 out of 10 rating for the pure entertainment value. Its worth a watch if your wanting a an amusing watch, even though there are some cheesy and cliche aspects but then that kind of accounts for some of its humour - I wouldn't say its the sort of film that takes itself too seriously, to put it that way.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Ashby tries to juggle a lot of things, even though it is successful in some of them, at the end it just feels like any other generic feel good film but with some bad editing and camera work.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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After moving to a new town with his single mother (Sarah Silverman), a teen (Nat Wolff) befriends a retired CIA assassin (Mickey Rourke) who teaches him valuable life lessons.

Director: Tony McNamara
Producer: Rory Koslow
Screenwriter: Tony McNamara
Distributor: The Film Arcade
Production Co: Head Gear Films
Rating: R (Some Sexual Material|Language|Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 25, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2017
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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