The Oranges

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The Oranges

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Released Oct 5, 2012

1h 32m

Comedy

Drama

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A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.

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Critics Consensus

Despite the efforts of its accomplished cast, The Oranges suffers from a mediocre script that fails to deliver well-rounded characters, dramatic tension, or sufficient laughs.

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Anna Smith

metro.co.uk

All in all, perfectly fine thanks to the cast and a fitfully witty script - but nothing to write home about.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 1, 2017

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

The movie's horribly jaunty soundtrack is a problem. Ditto the blah camera-work. But mostly it's the script, which turns out to be spineless.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 7, 2012

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

A tricky social conundrum is boiled down, lightly prodded and then forgotten by the roadside. Shame.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 6, 2012

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Allen Almachar

The MacGuffin

Sometimes, just sometimes, white picket fences and an SUV aren't all that bad.

Rated: C

Jul 30, 2020

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Chris Hunneysett

The Sunday People

takes the pith out of the audience

Rated: 2/5

Jul 25, 2019

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Amie Simon

Three Imaginary Girls

There aren't really any surprises here. And it's a shame to waste this amount of acting talent on a script that really doesn't require much acting.

Mar 4, 2019

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WendyLSchmidt P

I'm sorry but this is just another midlife crisis middle-aged man having it off with a girl that was almost like a daughter to him before he started to sleep with her. And the girl is unlikeable. This reminds me of the W. Allen films where he keeps trying to tell us it's fine to sleep with his step daughter.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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Lisa M

It had so much potential to be better, but alas it felt like someone just wanted the plot idea with no substance. Taboo relationship hated by everyone!! Yet the movie gives no reason for people to not see these relationships as having potential to be something more, or real, despite it not being cultivated in an appropriate way. They could have easily shown a development of mutual and platonic understanding, humor, friendship- before realizing it could be more- but it didn't. And the ending didn't make sense. Nina, while running away from everything ever, you could see character development happening and some sort of effort, then to just leave the ending as is was wild to me. I think it's a good watch, but god it could have been so much better.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/15/24

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Audience Member

What a terrible movie. All that talent just wasted.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/14/24

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Uynga U

very real and brutal

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/23/24

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Munkhjargal A

In this film, the director told us how such a small dispute between neighboring families can turn out to be a big problem. It turned out to be a real-life movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/23/24

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Bahad j

In my opinion, I felt that the movie was very good, behind all this, the filmmaker was able to come up with the right festive details to congratulate the members of the behind-the-scenes team.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/22/24

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Catherine Keener

Paige

Oliver Platt

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Allison Janney

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Synopsis

A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.

Director: Julian Farino
Producer: Anthony Bregman, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech
Screenwriter: Ian Helfer, Jay Reiss
Distributor: ATO Pictures
Production Co: ATO Pictures, Likely Story, Olympia Pictures
Rating: R (Sexual References|Language|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 5, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $319.4K
Runtime: 1h 32m

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