Find Movies & TV
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Explore
Movies & TV Shows
Most Popular
Leaving Soon
Categories
Action
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Descriptive Audio
Documentary
Drama
En Español
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western
Explore
Browse Channels
Featured Channels
Ion Mystery
NFL Channel
CBS Sports HQ
Categories
Hit TV
Crime
Reality
News
Sports
Game Shows
History & Science
Sci-Fi & Action
Movies
Chills & Thrills
Classic TV
Nature & Travel
Comedy
Black Entertainment
Cooking
Home
Kids & Family
Sporting
En Español
International
Gaming & Anime
Lifestyle
Music
Sign In
3 Backyards
2009 88m R
Drama
5.0
76%
30%
41%
Add to Watchlist
The story of three people from the same suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day.
More
Directed By
Eric Mendelsohn
Written By
Eric Mendelsohn
Studio
Caruso / Mendelsohn Productions
Watch on these services
This title is currently not available on any service.
Cast of 3 Backyards
Embeth Davidtz
The Actress
Edie Falco
Peggy
Elias Koteas
John
Rachel Resheff
Christina
Kathryn Erbe
John's Wife
Danai Gurira
Woman in Blue Dress
Dana Eskelson
Debbie
Kathy Searle
Ticket Agent
Peyton List
Emily
3 Backyards Reviews
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Little is left to chance, and every detail contributes to a tightly schematic, microcosmic poetic concept.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
This dark, well-acted suburban tale is follow-up to the gifted Mendleson's most promising feature debut
Observer
Rex Reed
My mind kept wandering.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Well-acted and acutely observed, the sort of cerebral fare you can more typically find on HBO than in theaters these days.
Metromix.com
Geoff Berkshire
Tries to give suburban malaise a fresh spin with dreamlike visuals and overbearing music.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Eric Mendelsohn's first film since 1999's Judy Berlin suggests Little Children as helmed by a nature documentarian.
Boxoffice Magazine
Steve Ramos
Three lives intersect over the course of a fall day in Long Island in Eric Mendelsohn's dazzling and delicate independent drama 3 Backyards.
TheFilmFile.com
Dustin Putman
An exquisitely observed slice-of-life with a genuinely transporting feel for its setting. Sumptuously dreamlike and compellingly elusive.
New Yorker
Bruce Diones
Mendelsohn's dialogue is, for the most part, as spare as poetry, and the three stories are woven together masterfully and acquire a gleaming aura that's almost pastoral.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
A story in which poor real folks are granted perspective only by brushing up against starlets, accidents, and villains of the tabloid press.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The movie has none of the smugness of American Beauty: You could dream of living in a world like this.
KPBS.org
Beth Accomando
And although Mendelsohn maintains a certain cool detachment, he also allows the film to occasionally soar in unexpected ways.
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
Mendelsohn may believe he's presenting an unvarnished look at middle-class America, but if these kinds of people exist, you won't recognize them.
New York Press
Armond White
Unlike those indie directors whose feel-good, P.C. claptrap predictably gets praised by the very people it flatters, Mendelsohn makes suburban poetry that opposes the way middle-class film culture likes to fantasize itself.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
It may not be the Long Island the natives are more accustomed to, but that sense of place from a prism of both wonderment and despair, is deep into the moment of those physical and human worlds alike, playing out sensually and emotionally in suburbia.
Hollywood & Fine
Marshall Fine
At once lyrical and mysterious, familiar yet enigmatic...It's a movie that raises more questions than it answers. It leaves you feeling haunted and touched.
Watch 3 Backyards Videos
3 Backyards
Take Plex everywhere
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
See the full list of supported devices
Home
Live TV
On Demand
