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Rich Kids

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A boy (Jeremy Levy) and a girl (Trini Alvarado), both from New York's Upper West Side, work through her parents' divorce.

Critics Reviews

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Judith Martin Washington Post 05/09/2017
Heart warming is not really the term ... "Insufferable" would be more like it. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Jul 9
Mostly comedic, but also insightfully touching at times, this sole produced screenplay by playwright Judith Ross didn’t make much of a splash upon release in 1979, but it retains an offbeat charm. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 02/23/2021
C+
Slow moving drama/comedy. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 01/18/2021
3.5/4
...a slow-moving yet increasingly absorbing drama... Go to Full Review
Ellen Cooney Sojourner 08/15/2019
[Rick Kids] is a sensitive, touching, and beautifully humane film about familial interactions. Judith Ross' script, an exercise in the often absurd and always credible ways parents love their children, is full of a rare kind of tenderness and sympathy. Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk 06/08/2016
3/4
even when the film feels a bit sluggish, there is always a moment of insight or humor just around the corner to perk things up Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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thiago s @Thiagostone Oct 26 Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more s r @ScottR 12/18/2020 It tried to be progressively complicated on a level that crosses into the inappropriate. Not much redeeming here other than it shows that divorce hurts children. Saw it on TCM. See more 05/12/2014 makes manhattan look like a playground for the rich See more 01/10/2011 Good movie but I want the DVD badly See more 01/09/2011 A surprisingly smart film from 1979, totally unknown to me. Two twelve year olds, played by Trini Alvarado and Jeremy Levy, go to school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. They explore their parents' broken marriages, and innocent youthful infatuation, with a wild climax involving a waterbed, a bubble bath and many sets of parents their new relationships: girlfriend, second husband, lawyer, employee, etc. Among the parents are a young John Lithgow and a young Kathryn Walker (the former girlfriend of Doug Kenney, founder of National Lampoon, an author of Animal House and Caddyshack, and other projects. He jumped off a cliff in depression when he thought Caddyshack was a flop. Kathryn Walker then married James Taylor. Now she's written a roman a clef about it all. And then there's Trini Alvarado, who has gone on to star in many films. And the young man who played her boyfriend, Jeremy Levy? He's now a professor of astro-physics at the University of Pittsburgh. Smart film, produced by Robert Altman, with other stars including Irene Worth and Olympia Dukakis. Neat. See more 09/06/2010 A pretty good drama about divorce. The young actors are really good, too. The ending was the only part I didn't care for, it could have been better. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A boy (Jeremy Levy) and a girl (Trini Alvarado), both from New York's Upper West Side, work through her parents' divorce.
Director
Robert M. Young
Producer
George W. George, Michael Hausman
Screenwriter
Judith Ross
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 25, 2003
Runtime
1h 41m