Fresh
An independent film that's all about forced independence.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Children of Invention
2010 · 1h 26m · NOT RATED
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Tze Chun
Overview
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Shows enormous love and respect for those clutching at the short end of the American Dream.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Chen and Chiu's genuine, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity add immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
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.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
Performances are realistic and unpretentious, and the backbone of this observant movie by a director-writer with a promising future.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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