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  • 2007
  • R
  • Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Introducing the Dwights is a comedy about a mother who tries to come between her son and his coming of age. Tim's mom, Jean, is a bawdy and risqué comedienne still hoping to make it big. His brother Mark helps their mother rehearse for shows. Together, they inhabit a non-traditional household where chaos is the norm, the music is always ...

Directed By: Cherie Nowlan

Written By: Keith Thompson, Jo Brand, Brenda Blethyn

  • 2007
  • R
  • Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)
  • 1 h 45 m

Introducing the Dwights

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Summary Introducing the Dwights is a comedy about a mother who tries to come between her son and his coming of age. Tim's mom, Jean, is a bawdy and risqué comedienne still hoping to make it big. His brother Mark helps their mother rehearse for shows. Together, they inhabit a non-traditional household where chaos is the norm, the music is always ...

Directed By: Cherie Nowlan

Written By: Keith Thompson, Jo Brand, Brenda Blethyn

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
10 Reviews
39% Mixed
9 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
50
43% Positive
10 Reviews
39% Mixed
9 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews

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100
Among the many strengths of the sweetly touching Introducing the Dwights, a small gem from Australia unearthed at the Sundance Film Festival, is that Jean never becomes Godzilla.
By Ruthe Stein FULL REVIEW
70
The movie belongs to Blethyn, who takes a difficult, easily misunderstood role and gracefully cracks it open to reveal what's inside.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
63
The dynamic between mother and son is fascinating, with Blethyn creating a character who is more antagonist than villain.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
The script's attempt to splice together a fumbling love story with a portrait of toxic personality disorder feels incongruous, like a serving of porridge flambé au whisky.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
50
A funny-sad, icky-sweet comedy of family dysfunction.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
40
Jean's material is so flat-out awful it's amazing she gets hired at all, let alone that she once supposedly had headliner potential. It's a discrepancy that Introducing the Dwights never addresses.
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30
With its broad, toothless humor and ham-fisted fits of melodrama, this sitcom-grade embarrassment aims to dethrone "Muriel's Wedding" as the quirky Aussie feel-gooder of all time, except it hurts too much to watch.
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Production Company Goalpost Pictures, Film Finance, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Palace Films, R.B. Films, Shaftesbury Films, Sunday Night Movies
Release Date Jul 4, 2007
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
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Tagline The only remedy for love is to love more
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Awards

Australian Film Institute
• 1 Win & 11 Nominations
Australian Screen Sound Guild
• 3 Nominations
IF Awards
• 3 Nominations

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