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Children of Invention
Directed by
Tze Chun
Not Rated
2010
86m
Drama
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Comedy
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6.5
79%
60%
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Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears.
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Cast of Children of Invention
Cindy Cheung
Elaine Cheng
Michael Chen
Raymond Cheng
Crystal Chiu
Tina Cheng
Stephen Gevedon
Rob the Salesman
Frank Pando
Bruce
Kieran Campion
Dan
Jackson Ning
Michael
Yan Xi
Felicia
Children of Invention Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Chen and Chiu's genuine, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity add immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Restraint proves a virtue of -- and a shrewd if necessary choice for -- Children of Invention, a modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Children of Invention is appealing as a modest appreciation of certain strengths of innocence.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Performances are realistic and unpretentious, and the backbone of this observant movie by a director-writer with a promising future.
Times-Picayune
Mike Scott
It's a promising start for director Tze Chun, but despite the film's charms, the story doesn't get interesting enough early enough.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Children of Invention's derives its beauty from its casually obsessed dwelling on the minutia of dreaming when you're down and out.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
Preserving a sense of hope for today's children, there is too much in this film that is too hard to believe.
Filmcritic.com
Norm Schrager
keeps the danger and sadness at bay, instead giving us two fairly developed kid characters
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Shows enormous love and respect for those clutching at the short end of the American Dream.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Lovece
Heartfelt but dramatically tepid tale of two kids who must fend for themselves after their single mom goes missing.
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
The young director Tze Chun is not a flashy filmmaker, but he understands the vulnerability of immigrant workers in the sleazy sub-rosa economies of a floundering 21st-century America.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
A more than welcome addition, in a film world where mothers more often than not, get a bad rap for everything that ails US society when it comes to shortchanging children.
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