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Any Day Now

Any Day Now (2012)

December. 14,2012
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7.4
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R
| Drama

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.

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TrueJoshNight
2012/12/14

Truly Dreadful Film

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SpuffyWeb
2012/12/15

Sadly Over-hyped

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Abbigail Bush
2012/12/16

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Lela
2012/12/17

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

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Howlin Wolf
2012/12/18

and I realise with that one summary, I may have alienated more conservative readers, but hey - you're already preaching to the converted.So, as an audience, do we really need to see that the mother is a hopeless case AFTER the custody decision has been awarded in her favour?! Does the kid have to die, as a result of the ruling? I realise this is how events MAY have transpired, but some judicious pacing could have been employed, in order that proceedings not feel quite so manipulative.I'm fully in favour of adoption to a loving home, no matter the sexuality of the prospective parents… I am… but it would be nice if the individual facts of the case were trusted to speak for themselves, instead of feeling like the undecided have to have their arm twisted behind their back before they can be counted upon to make the right call. A little more subtlety would have made the movie more effective to me, even if marginally less persuasive for those whose verdict is still in the balance.It's a shame, too, because the message is all in favour of a good cause, and Cumming's performance is masterful. It's a pity for the sake of organic storytelling in entertaining form, that those factors alone were not judged as compelling enough to be able to swing the vote.

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gregory_smith
2012/12/19

Whilst I cannot comment on the authenticity of the 70's look considering I was born in the early 90's but Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt capture magic with this movie. The film not only entertains many features of early gay culture but many themes that all audiences can enjoy. I have spent the better part of my life researching the realisation of equal rights and this movie does justice to those who still fight today for equal rights, one of which include the right to love one another but to build a family and to shatter such an anachronistic concept as "normal". This film is a must-see!

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jm10701
2012/12/20

If I cared about my reviewer ranking (I don't), I'd never review a movie like Any Day Now. So many people love it so adamantly that they can't help attacking anybody who doesn't.Although he plays an interesting character, Alan Cumming's performance is so over-the-top that he is never believable; and since the whole movie hangs on his performance, the whole movie is a failure.I never for one second forgot that I was watching Alan Cumming act, never for one second related to Rudy Donatello as a real person or cared about what he cared about. In that regard, Garret Dillahunt's Paul was much better. I did believe in and care about him, but it wasn't enough.I never for one second even believed Rudy was gay (even though Cumming is) or that he cared a bean about Marco or Paul or anybody else but his own obnoxious drama-queen self. Marco was a prop to him, not a person; Marco was just a pawn in Rudy's egomaniacal drive to right society's injustice against himself.Willing suspension of disbelief is one thing, and I do it all the time when watching movies; but trying to FORCE myself to believe something when everything in me constantly screams "Fake!" is more than I demand of myself.The atrocious wigs that sat atop Cumming's and Dillahunt's heads throughout the movie, and Cumming's shrill and embarrassingly bad New York accent, were persistent and unnecessary distractions that did not help the movie's credibility. Movies are for entertainment; if they don't entertain, they fail. The failure is theirs, not mine.I agree completely with a review on another site that starts "The message is admirable, but the vehicle is a clunker." The legal rejection of gays as adoptive parents is an indefensible injustice that must and will be corrected. This movie not only completely fails to advance that cause, but it sets that cause back. That's inexcusable.Gay couples deserve better than this movie. It makes a strong case for NOT letting gays adopt, because the gay in this case is a narcissistic, hysterical, totally self-absorbed nut like Rudy Donatello, unfit to adopt ANY child, especially one like Marco who needs constant, self-sacrificing attention. Rudy's total unfitness to adopt a child has nothing to do with his being gay; it has to do with his unstable, totally self-centered personality.Near the movie's end - just in case we'd somehow missed the point that the tragedy was about HIM, not about Marco - Rudy grinds out a truly cringe-inducing rendition of Bob Dylan's hymn-like "I Shall Be Released", tears and sweat streaming down his face. His rampant, crippling narcissism is appalling.Saying that Any Day Now is based on "a true story" is no excuse. The writer-director Travis Fine chose what to include and leave out, what to emphasize and tone down. The movie is his responsibility; he was not forced by "facts" to make it as he did.If Fine's intention was to advance the cause of gay adoption, his hero should have been fit to parent a disabled child, so that the law's rejection of him could be seen as truly biased and unjust. Rudy - THIS Rudy - was NOT fit to parent such a child, or any child. I am proudly and militantly gay, but I kept hoping for Marco's sake that the courts would not give Rudy custody of him.I doubt that's the point Fine intended to make when he wrote and directed this movie, but it's the point he did make. Thank God the future of gay rights doesn't depend on this movie, or we'd all be back in the closet with the door locked and our guns loaded.

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Gordon-11
2012/12/21

This film is about a gay couple who fights the legal system to get custody of a mentally handicapped child in the USA in 1970's."Any Day Now" tells a touching story about how two gay men fall in love with each other, and their love extends to a mentally retarded child who is left alone because his mother is sentenced to prison for drug related offence. The film couple becomes loving and caring parents to an underprivileged child, despite the discrimination of the conservative society. This selfless and unconditional love is quite touching in itself, but what is more touching is their solid determination to fight against systematic discrimination and injustice.I am glad that this film is made, so that this story, together with their activist spirit, reaches a wider audience. Hopefully, someone somewhere is inspired by this couple, and will stand up against injustice like they did.

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