Rotten
[Its] downfall was ensured by a leading lady who will always be more credible chasing zombies than the American dream.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Overview
Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive's criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effort to give Bobby a proper chance in life.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Actress Famke Janssen wrote and directed this half-spiky, A-for-effort dramedy about a grifter mom struggling to raise her preteen son on the road.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten
Milla Jovovich delivers an over-the-top peformance in this melodramatic tale of an immigrant con artist and her juvenile delinquent son.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
Bringing Up Bobby centers around a mugging performance by Jovovich, who can't ground the film's attempts to tie together sentiments from Paper Moon and Miss Saigon.
Alison Willmore, AV Club
Rotten
'"Bringing Up Bobby" is hardly an auspicious debut for Janssen as a director, but, at the same time, there's enough there to suggest that a next attempt would be worthy of investigation...
James Rocchi, MSN Movies
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