Rotten
Too much of "Any Day Now" founders in cliche and predictable table-turning and point-scoring instead of building a set of complicated characters at odds with a biased system.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Any Day Now
They made him a promise. He made them a family.
2012 · 1h 37m
Drama
Directed by
Travis Fine
Overview
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Director and cast
- Travis Fine Director
- Alan Cumming as Rudy
- Garret Dillahunt as Paul
- Isaac Leyva as Marco
- Frances Fisher as Judge Meyerson
- Gregg Henry as Lambert
- Jamie Anne Allman as Marianna Deison
- Chris Mulkey as DA Wilson
- Don Franklin as Lonnie Washington
- Kelli Williams as Miss Flemming
- Alan Rachins as Judge Resnick
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
The growing community of gay parents deserves a better reflection of their struggles than a kitschy "Kramer vs. Kramer."
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rotten
Switches between a few primary modes -- agenda-mentary, romance, courtroom drama, tearjerker -- without engaging very convincingly in any of them.
Claude Peck, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Generally abysmal.
John Anderson, Newsday
Fresh
Gets its point across, and its sad drama. And it spotlights a marvelous performance by Alan Cumming.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
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