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A boy is shuffled between the homes of his divorced parents.

Critics Reviews

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Peter Debruge Variety 02/24/2019
I've seen "Weekends" thrice now, and some of it still confuses me, but I'm convinced it's a work of art. Go to Full Review
Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson 06/26/2022
4/5
Even with shared familial love, the tricky part for the caring and observant young boy in Weekends are the swings weathered between the different parenting approaches and tones. Go to Full Review
Roberto Friedman Bay Area Reporter 05/29/2020
A simple premise, but one told with thoughtfulness and precision. Go to Full Review
Laura Hiros Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX) 02/19/2019
5/5
An animated short... [that is] tremendously emotional. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Glenn Heath Jr. San Diego CityBeat 02/19/2019
Its minimalist 2-D sketches are sobering and surreal, a shape-shifting monument to the protagonist's growing anxiety. Go to Full Review
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Jacob B Feb 4 Only took somebody a couple of years to update Pixar's Wikipedia navbox to include a few adjacent short films (due to them allowing staff members to utilise company resources to tell their own short stories) for me to learn about this underrated Oscar nominee's existence. Good thing it can still be found on Facebook because I do recommend this short to anybody who grew up with divorced parents. The storytelling is compelling despite the lack of dialogue, the short does a good job depicting what certain events must be like from a child's perspective, it deals with some topics that, while implied, I doubt Pixar would release under their name such as the implication that the mother's new boyfriend is a jerk, to put it mildly and the animation is charming. Do I feel bad this short lost the Oscar to the actual Pixar short? Not really, I still think Bao was incredibly poignant. But I do think this is a hopeful, thought-provoking short that's still really good in its own right. See more yunzhi o 12/27/2020 Without words, we observe and experience a tenderness right along with the protagonist. There is poetry to the art style and use of sound. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A boy is shuffled between the homes of his divorced parents.
Director
Trevor Jimenez
Producer
Jeremy Slome
Screenwriter
Trevor Jimenez
Production Co
Past Lives Productions
Genre
Drama, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 7, 2019
Runtime
16m