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Uncle Frank
Directed by
Alan Ball
R
2020
1h 35m
Drama
,
Comedy
7.3
77%
83%
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In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina, for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover, Walid.
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Cast of Uncle Frank
Paul Bettany
Frank
Sophia Lillis
Beth
Peter Macdissi
Wally
Steve Zahn
Mike
Stephen Root
Daddy Mac
Judy Greer
Kitty
Margo Martindale
Mammaw
Lois Smith
Aunt Butch
Jane McNeill
Neva
Caity Brewer
Marcia
Cole Doman
16-year-old Frank
Michael Perez
16-year-old Sam
Hannah Black
Janis
Banks Repeta
11-year-old Bullet
Burgess Jenkins
Beau
Colton Ryan
Bruce
Britt Rentschler
Charlotte
Christopher Speed
Bernard
Voltaire Colin Council
Mechanic
Zach Strum
Tee Dub
Uncle Frank Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
The farther we get from the central relationship, the more clichéd Uncle Frank becomes, and these clichés are outdated and trite.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"Uncle Frank" is hopeful enough to suggest a healing way out of the bind and well-crafted enough to get a viewer to believe it. Maybe that's enough to get us through the holidays.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It's a poignant dysfunctional family drama laced with warmth, sadness, humor and hope.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Hewitt
In description, "Uncle Frank" sounds like a tonal nightmare, but Paul Bettany's quiet, calm performance as Frank glues everything together.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Alan Ball's "Uncle Frank" is a wonderfully warm film about coming out and growing up.
AV Club
Allison Shoemaker
Easy doesn't always mean lazy. But Uncle Frank's bewilderingly pat conclusion all but obliterates the good that comes before, reducing the complexity of Frank's experience to those two words, "No problem."
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Ultimately, writer-director Alan Ball's predictable but engaging drama is about acceptance and courage.
Observer
Oliver Jones
Uncle Frank is fated to become the green bean casserole of this holiday's film streaming options: designed to appeal to everyone, but destined to remain uneaten.
NME (New Musical Express)
Linda Marric
An evocative slice of retro Americana and a highly entertaining road movie.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Uncle Frank revolves around Uncle Frank, and Bettany's career-great performance as a man who knows where the gaps are in his life, and how much his whole relationship with his family is about holding his breath.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
"Uncle Frank," a finely acted, often deeply emotional period piece that, despite its share of strong moments, stacks the deck too much for its own dramatic good.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
It's touching... But for the overwhelming most part, I liked it better when it was about this young girl with her uncle in New York.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Christy Lemire
The first half is definitely more interesting and rang truer to me than the second [half].
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Those moments that land, whether funny or moving, occur when Ball isn't getting in his own way and instead trusts in the characters he's written and the actors who are performing them.
NPR
Glen Weldon
Uncle Frank's intentions are to be admired, and its acting is outstanding - but if it's so frustratingly unwilling to truly invest in its characters, why should we?
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
Combines several overworked genres - the coming-of-age picture, the road-trip odyssey, the angst-filled family-reunion movie - and mostly steers clear of the obvious pitfalls.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
For all its faults, though, "Uncle Frank" is heartfelt, and its message of acceptance manages to come through.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Uncle Frank feels like a memoir, and also feels extraordinarily true, and fresh, thanks to the untrammeled terrain it visits, at least in New York.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
When the distance between uncle and niece shortens, Uncle Frank ceases to be a tender portrait of outsider kinship and transforms into a histrionic road movie with screwball intentions.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
Twenty years after he blazed onto the film scene, Alan Ball is back with another American beauty.
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