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The Kids Grow Up
Directed by
Doug Block
Not Rated
2010
90m
[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary)
6.8
59%
77%
6.0
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A humorous and deeply moving look at father-daughter relationships, modern-day parenting, marriage and the looming empty nest.
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Cast of The Kids Grow Up
Doug Block
Director
The Kids Grow Up Ratings & Reviews
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
Assembled with clarity and taste, "The Kids Grow Up" is a beautiful film in which every single minute feels alive and true.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Block wears his neuroses so guilelessly on his sleeve and organizes his material with such skill, that what might have been insufferable navel-gazing attains poignancy.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
A very slow and easygoing look at the simplest things in life, which turn out to be not so simple. Have a cup of coffee before this one.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
Regardless of the cause, the prevalence of empty-nest anxiety among baby boomers isn't terribly flattering to their conception of domestic relationships.
Boxoffice Magazine
John P. McCarthy
Ranks as one of the best non-fiction films of the year.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Unwittingly provides a glimpse of the unhealthy and potentially damaging parental desire to preserve and memorialize every second of family life.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A poignant, honest and voyeuristic quest filled with insight and humor.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Maybe being able to look back in time is comforting for Block and company, but what makes him think complete strangers give a damn about his not-especially-interesting family?
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A chronicle of ordinary life that is partly a scrapbook, partly a memoir and, most movingly, an essay on the passage of time and the mysterious connections between parents and children.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Block intended this movie as a loving portrait of his relationship with his daughter. Instead, it's a reflection, and not always a kind one, of the man behind the camera.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
a queasy but spottily illuminating piece of work that doesn't so much try to blur the line between life and art but pretend that one never existed in the first place.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The same qualities that sometimes make The Kids Grow Up tough to watch also make it irresistible.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
By experiencing Block's films, we aren't merely witnessing his neurosis, we're abetting and validating it.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
Stands out as one of the best documentaries ever made about the important transition of leaving home, a tricky and complicated stretch of time for parents and their offspring.
Village Voice
Eric Hynes
The Kids Grow Up is ostensibly about parenthood and memory, but is most revealing about modern marriage -- the elephant that's always in the room, the mystery that can't be solved, a shared past that offers little direction for the future.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
Interesting but unpleasant documentary about the "empty nest" syndrome.
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