The film only partially lives up to its promise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

Keener is a great character actress, while Olsen is destined to become one.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 3, 2019

This pleasant enough straight-to-DVD comedy stars Catherine Keener as an uptight lawyer who takes her kids (one is Elizabeth Olsen) to her Mom's for the summer.

| Nov 16, 2018

The plot arc of the budding video artist is just the final nail in a formulaic box that is supposed to be about loosening up, but is walled in by convention.

| Aug 30, 2018

Somewhere Alison Bechdel is screaming.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 25, 2012

Three talented actresses, including Jane Fonda, are wasted in this disappointing serio-comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 4, 2012

About as surprising in its plot as a trip to McDonald's, but that doesn't keep it from being pretty satisfying on the cinematic comfort-food level.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2012

The once divisive 'Hanoi Jane' is now a harmless hippie dispensing homegrown marijuana and homilies about love and 'transformation' in this cornball, clichd and predictable yet agreeable and entertaining movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2012

The lighting was so off in this movie that bright patches of sunlight made me squint and dark nighttime scenes lost some character's facial features.

| Jun 18, 2012

For a movie that professes to teach us to get past our insecurities and think more freely, it does so with astonishingly conventional storytelling tropes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2012

Hippies are now charming old eccentrics who exist mainly to teach the rest of us to stop and smell (or smoke) the roses.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 15, 2012

Beresford directs without purpose or polish, and his mostly fine cast, which includes Kyle MacLachlan and Rosanna Arquette in bit parts, is wasted.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jun 15, 2012

Pop songs, beautiful bucolic scenery and the joy of watching Jane Fonda fizz in a fun role that looks like a no-brainer are elements that a skilled director like Australia's polished Bruce Beresford blends with perfection.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2012

Jane Fonda's hippy offers nothing but a chance for Catherine Keener's uptight New Yorker to bicker with. What a flat film.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 13, 2012

Drug use and cliches mar unoriginal indie dramedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2012

f Woodstock represented three days of love and peace, "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding" mostly takes up 96 minutes of your time, most who see will wish they could get back.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 10, 2012

It's a bad sign when Jane Fonda has to work to pass for an old hippie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 9, 2012

Fonda, Keener and Olsen compose a dream team of multigenerational talent, but they, and this film, are underserved by characters in need of development and an idea in need of a story.

| Original Score: 5.4/10 | Jun 8, 2012

Good-natured, eager to please and harmless, but also contrived, trite and bland.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 8, 2012

Not every movie is, or has to be, an Event. Sometimes all I ask of a film is that it offer a pleasant diversion for an hour and a half. That's exactly what I got from 'Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding'.

| Jun 8, 2012