The Oranges

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  • Opened October 5, 2012 
  • 1 hr 32 min
  • R | Some Drug Use, Sexual References and Language
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. More on child suitability

  • David and Paige Walling (Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener) and Terry and Cathy Ostroff (Oliver Platt, Allison Janney) are best friends and neighbors living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey. Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff (Leighton Meester), newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan (Sam Rosen), returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Rather than developing an interest in the successful son of her neighbors, Toby Walling (Adam Brody), which would please both families, it's her parents' best friend David who captures Nina's attention. When the connection between Nina and David becomes undeniable, everyone's lives are thrown into upheaval, particularly Vanessa Walling's (Alia Shawkat), Nina's childhood best friend. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Allison Janney
  • Director: Julian Farino
  • Genres: Comedy

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Be happy or make sacrifice for your family?

by shadowflown

If this never happened to you before you will probably would not understand this movie. But if so you better watch it to be prepared. Though you cannot be prepared for such life circumstances. So just...

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DULL, BORING TALE ABOUT TWO DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES IN NEW JERSEY.

by Peneflix

Alert: these "oranges' instead of being beneficial are a detriment to one's health. Skip this supercilious, embarrassing diatribe about a failed marriage, doomed affair; worst flaw: painfully...

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by ealfonso04

It was a fun movie with a good story, I recommend it!!...

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Critic Reviews

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NPR
| Ella Taylor

What makes you sit up straight is that The Oranges takes seriously everyone's unhappiness, including the home-wrecker's, without letting anyone off the hook of responsibility for their own becalmed misery. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

The movie has a saving grace in that it breaks formula. Its concerns are not the usual movie concerns, and it takes what might have been a standard plot in some unexpected directions. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

Maybe The Oranges does represent a middle-age male fantasy, but Laurie lets you see its pitfalls as well as its pleasures. Read full review

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New York Post
| Lou Lumenick

While there are laughs, the farcical elements of The Oranges are not presented with sufficient discipline to live up to the full potential of its cast. But as a seven-year veteran of the New Jersey suburban experience, I can testify that it nails the milieu's specifics. Read full review

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Oliver Platt, Allison Janney, Hugh Laurie and Alia Shawkat in "The Oranges."