Rotten
In the evolutionary spectrum of cinema, "Natural Selection" is like the duck-billed platypus, pretending to be warm-blooded but more than a little fowl.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Natural Selection
Linda White Has Found Her Son. God Help Her.
2011 · 1h 30m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Robbie Pickering
Overview
When a dutiful, albeit barren Christian housewife discovers that her devout husband has suffered a stroke at a sperm bank where he's been secretly donating his seed for the past 25 years, she leaves her sheltered world and starts off on a journey to find his eldest biological son - a mullet-headed, foul-mouthed ex-con with whom she develops an odd but meaningful relationship.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[Harris is] the one good thing in "Natural Selection."
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Fresh
However gritty this indie comedy may look (cinematographer Steve Calitri seems to be aping William Eggleston's photographs of the American south), it isn't all that different from an Adam Sandler vehicle.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh
[Harris is] the big reason that "Natural Selection" is so engaging.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
In Harris' hands, Linda is guileless but believable, her smile so worn and wary that it almost hurts to see it.
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
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