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      Mimi and Dona

      2014 1h 5m Documentary Drama List
      Reviews 50% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Mimi Thornton, a 92-year-old widow, must find a home for her daughter, who needs full-time care. Read More Read Less

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      Cynthia Fuchs PopMatters Mimi and Dona looks at situations common in many families, situations that are never easily resolved. Rated: 6/10 Nov 24, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A touching, thoughtful and personal look at a family's difficult journey. If you have or know someone with an adult child with autism or intellectual disability, this film provides a unique perspective with universal themes. I enjoyed getting to know Mimi and Dona through this gentle film. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member The most exploiting film I've ever seen about the most dysfunctional, passive-aggressive, aloof, screwed-up family I've ever met (Mimi and Dona excluded) ... you've got a filmmaker taking advantage of a situation trying to be the like the Maysles Brothers - but really attempting to vindicate her frigid, grudge-holding mother against a sister who doesn't know any better - a father who is an elitist snob set against a mother-in-law who tries to do best for her disabled daughter - and the other daughter who just didn't get her own way or the attention she thought she deserved - so pouts her entire life. In the end, Dona is reduced to a shell of a human - they all try and convince Mimi that what she did was "for the best" (not for her and Dona - but for them) - and funny, how the "filmmaker" has a camera going when all this is coming to pass some decades after being just fine ... there's a shot of the sister feeding Dona with absolutely no love but just disdain ... in the end, Mimi doesn't die (which was the reason they "needed to find a home for Dona") - Sartain has a goddamn coffin with Dona dead ... while everyone else is playing catch and having a grand ol' time ... and the sister showing absolutely no emotion ... Of course, the director has to link this entire family tragedy with her own adopted family; but really never takes it anywhere. The whole film is just disgraceful ... Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review greg r Mimi and Dona both deserved a better family than this filmaker and her's. Infuriating movie about a lazy group that had every opportunity to save two people and opted for themselves instead. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Mimi Thornton, a 92-year-old widow, must find a home for her daughter, who needs full-time care.
      Director
      Sophie Sartain
      Producer
      Marta Kauffman, Nancy Spielberg
      Screenwriter
      Sophie Sartain
      Genre
      Documentary, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 22, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 5m
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