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What They Had
After her ailing mother wanders off during a blizzard, Bridget returns to her childhood home in Chicago, accompanied by her rebellious daughter. Forced to referee between her father's stubborn insistence that his wife remains at home and her equally determined brother's efforts to place her in a 'memory care' facility, Bridget struggles to make sense of a lifetime of family conflict. With her mother's decline becoming increasingly obvious, long-simmering resentments bubble to the surface.
28 November 1978, Chicago, Illinois, USA
July 27, 1992 in Miami, Florida, USA
18 February 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 February 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
17 August 1994, Readington, New Jersey, USA
20 June 1971, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
13 July 1941, Rochester, New York, USA
2 February 1978, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
March 04, 2019
The film I found hardest to endure was this drama by Elizabeth Chomko, an especially dreary addition to the crowd of earnest American movies about families working through their issues.
March 01, 2019
Blythe Danner is the heart and soul of this slightly ponderous movie about a family in crisis
March 04, 2019
Inevitable heartache is deftly balanced with humour to dissipate tension.
March 05, 2019
It had moments of truth in it, but I didn't think that as a film it was particularly effective.
March 04, 2019
What ensues is theatrical, trying and emotionally over-wrought, with actress- turned-writer-director Elizabeth Chomko struggling to say anything that the likes of Still Alice, Away From Her and The Leisure Seeker haven't said better already.
October 26, 2018
Blythe Danner does a remarkable job of conveying Ruth's irreversible path into total memory loss without turning her into a movie-of-the-week cliché.
March 04, 2019
The three-way excellence of Forster, Swank and Shannon is the throbbing, tumultuous heart of Chomko's debut. Top-notch dialogue, earthy characterisation, a rich score...and an authentic angle on a weighty theme do the rest.
February 28, 2019
I could never quite believe in this family.
October 25, 2018
You may feel as if you've seen this movie before: Ruth has Alzheimer's, her husband Burt is in denial and their grown children Nick and Bridget are at odds. But please, trust me, you haven't...
October 25, 2018
What sets the film apart is the literate and insightful script by Elizabeth Chomko, who also directs, and a cast of stellar performers.
October 30, 2018
There's an inherent longing in Elizabeth Chomko's stunning feature debut, What They Had.
November 09, 2018
An affecting drama propped up by unexpected and humanizing moments of comedy.
