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Boundaries
The more LAURA (Vera Farmiga) tries to set boundaries in her life, the faster those lines are crossed. Her 12-year-old son HENRY (Lewis MacDougall) is in trouble again at school. Her own penchant for adopting stray dogs and cats threatens to overwhelm their Seattle home. And her phone keeps ringing with calls she refuses to pick up—from her estranged father JACK (Christopher Plummer). Maybe Jack will stick around. For Laura, the chance to accept, forgive, and heal will never go away.
23 February 1940, New York City, New York, USA
26 November 1972, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1 June 1935, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
3 May 1970, Union City, New Jersey, USA
12 June 1922, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 May 1986, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1972
July 23, 2018
Writer-director Shana Heste's film never transcends its clichés, wasting fine actors on a screenplay that whipsaws between broad comedy and shrill drama.
July 12, 2018
Boundaries keeps the syrup on medium, and Plummer looks like he's having a ball. If you have a penchant for broken wing syndrome, you may want to let this one into your life.
June 29, 2018
[Plummer] is incapable of mediocrity, but damn if the script doesn't draw him close to the edge.
July 11, 2018
The writing is smart and funny, the scenery along the Pacific coast is glorious, and the performances are all topnotch. It was a labor of love for the director, and her close connection to the material is apparent.
October 09, 2018
I found myself laughing quite a bit and felt great at the end of the journey. The comedy isn't trying to get you all up in your feelings, it just wants you to enjoy the ride.
July 11, 2018
It's the best thing Feste has made to date, which isn't saying much, but she shows newfound interest in emotional authenticity here.
July 05, 2018
A movie with no reason to exist apart from setting into motion an otherwise interesting cast, led by Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga.
July 18, 2018
While some complex themes like abandonment and redemption are touched upon lightly, there's not much room for anything else to breathe with Farmiga's exaggeratedly neurotic character overshadowing some of the more interesting relationships."
June 28, 2018
That's the easy, low-grade charm of "Boundaries." Like the effects of Grandpa's weed, its performances loosen up - and at times even find the profundity in - a stiff and sometimes silly tale.
July 05, 2018
The film... crosses a line - between engaging idiosyncrasy and floundering improbability, amusing and cringeworthy.
July 12, 2018
Feste isn't shooting for easy laughs, or even prolonged ones. She wants nervous giggles to come with a muttered "there but for the grace of God go I."
June 29, 2018
Plummer and Farmiga are great together. If only they'd been given material to suit their skills.