The Best and the Brightest

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The Best and the Brightest

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2010

1h 33m

Comedy

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Samantha (Bonnie Somerville) and Jeff (Neil Patrick Harris) realize they will have to go to great lengths to get their 5-year-old daughter into school.

John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

06/24/2011

Absurd premise and weak script doom this comedy about haute-preschool angst.

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Lou Lumenick

New York Post

06/24/2011

1.5/4

Josh Shelov's smug and smutty farce employs an estimable cast in an only sporadically funny story...

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

06/24/2011

2/5

Far too many sitcom shenanigans crop up like clockwork...

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

10/19/2011

2/4

...it's finally impossible to label The Best and the Brightest as anything more than a sporadically amusing misfire.

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Brent Simon

Shared Darkness

06/29/2011

C+

A slim pan. While there's a certain novelty of setting and a lot of its dialogue pops, the movie's chief problem is the fact that it doesn't seem to wholly embrace the arguably detestable nature of its characters.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

06/24/2011

7/10

A politically incorrect farce that's increasingly preposterous and inane yet nonetheless hilarious, zany and bold. Amy Sedaris has never been funnier.

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06/13/2015

Silly and ridiculous with a great cast of characters.

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03/05/2014

Hey hey! you will never love me the way I love you and Iam ok with that because no one can love you as much as I love you so stick with me? I think Im getting better with age. -J.

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08/29/2013

Absurd premise and weak script doom this comedy about haute-preschool angst.

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07/08/2013

There were some funny parts, but this felt to me like another "kid movie for adults", ie: kid type humor with tons of sexual content and swearing. If a kid were allowed to watch through the heavy R rating, I'm sure they would have thought it was great.

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12/13/2012

There is almost no plot to speak of, but some of the dialogue is absolutely hilarious. And, I mean, who can go wrong with Neil Patrick Harris? It's insipid, pointless and sometimes incredibly crass, but I enjoyed it anyway. There's nothing wrong with mindless comedy once in a while, and this is one of the more fun mindless comedies I've seen recently.

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11/29/2012

There were cute parts, but it was weak.

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Synopsis

Samantha (Bonnie Somerville) and Jeff (Neil Patrick Harris) realize they will have to go to great lengths to get their 5-year-old daughter into school.

Director: Josh Shelov
Producer: Nicholas Simon, Patricia Weiser, Robert Weiser
Screenwriter: Michael Jaeger, Josh Shelov
Production Co: High Treason Productions
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Some Nudity|Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 16, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 33m