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American Son
Directed by
Kenny Leon
2019
90m
TV-MA
Drama
5.9
46%
64%
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An estranged couple reunite in a Florida police station to help find their missing teenage son.
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Cast of American Son
Kerry Washington
Kendra Ellis-Connor
Steven Pasquale
Scott Connor
Jeremy Jordan
Officer Paul Larkin
Eugene Lee
Lieutenant John Stokes
American Son Reviews
People's World
Chauncey K. Robinson
The film presents no clear answers, never lets up on the intensity, and provides no true comfort. It is not a movie for casual viewing, but aims to make you uncomfortable and affected.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Almost all the acting here is pointedly overstated, as if the performers are trying to project past an especially long proscenium.
Movie Nation
Roger Moore
A play that needs another week of out of town tryouts...it never gets 'on its feet.'
Black Girl Nerds
Lynnette Nicholas
Kenny Leon's 'American Son' gets real about societal constructs and implicit racial bias
The Black Cape
Jonita Davis
'American Son' is a film that will leave parents with questions about their own effectiveness, and also with an uncontrollable urge to find out where the teenagers are right now.
Common Sense Media
Marty Brown
Stage adaptation superficially grapples with complex issues.
NME (New Musical Express)
Nick Levine
This no-frills Broadway adaptation should have stayed on stage...
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
American Son doesn't really work as a movie. Its theatricality comes across as forced and curiously inert on screen, at close range to the actors, and its conversations about race and policing in particular feel stilted and contrive
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
American Son possesses considerable power in its premise, while wrestling with the claustrophobic aspects of transferring a stage play to the screen. Ultimately, the subject matter wins out, yielding a flawed but brisk 90-minute Netflix presentation.
NPR
Andrew Lapin
The next time Netflix goes sniffing around Broadway, it should bring back something with brains to match heart.
New York Times
Chris Vognar
"American Son"... tries very hard to squeeze significance out of every scene. Unfortunately it forgets to tell a story amid all the meaning. Details, details.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Worthy yet heavy-handed, too often coming off as an editorializing lecture or essay in thinly fictionalized form.
Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
An intimate, affecting dramatization of a nationwide crisis.
The Spool
Sarah Gorr
American Son has all the subtlety and nuance of Driving Miss Daisy (which is to say almost none), albeit with a more interesting and complex message.
Film Inquiry
Wilson Kwong
American Son may not be a groundbreaking piece of filmmaking, but that's not what it was meant to be either. The film is a transformative adaptation that attempts to elevate elements of its original source material through the cinematic medium.
Fortune
Isaac Feldberg
A slightly behind-the-times but nevertheless compelling comment on race relations.
Decider
John Serba
Washington's commitment to her role can't overcome all the shouting obviousness of the script.
idobi.com
Sherin Nicole
This one is all about hard truths...a work of art that is riveting in its own taut way.
Solzy at the Movies
Danielle Solzman
American Son is an eye-opening film that ought to make audiences think after viewing it.
Geeks of Color
Britany Murphy
As a film that will leave you thinking about it for days to come, with a powerhouse performance by Washington, American Son is a film that truly must be seen.
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