Rotten
You have your basic family psychodrama, except there's no real heat either downstairs or up.
Tom Long, Detroit News
The Playroom
It's 1975. Do you know where your parents are?
2013 · 1h 23m · NOT RATED
Drama
Directed by
Julia Dyer
Overview
Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
58%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Standout Olivia Harris and Parker are heart-wrenching as the vitriolic mother and neglected teen daughter.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
Modest in scale, it's the kind of American independent film that brings some honor to that shopworn descriptor.
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Rotten
The film uses the upper-middle-class setting effectively, even as it resorts to heavy-handed symbolism and melodrama in its dour, mostly unforgiving portrait of parental dysfunction.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
A detailed, and depressing portrait of grim, forced independence. Lightened only by the sense that if these kids are learning anything, it is how to survive.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
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