Phyllis and Harold
Closed CaptioningCindy Kleine
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Plot Summary
Phyllis and Harold is an astoundingly frank journey through a disastrous 59-year marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family's home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verité and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was still alive. Phyllis and Harold delves into the mystery of time passing, the nature of living a life, and the challenges of losing those we love. But it is also a loving, funny exposé on the sins of suburbia.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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70%- Reviews Counted: 23
- Fresh: 16
- Rotten: 7
- Average Rating: 6.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: An impossibly self-involved portrait of a union far more commonplace than its offspring seem to believe.
Fresh: Evocatively fleshed out with surprisingly iconic homemovies, passionate love letters and well-chosen pop tunes, Kleine's homegrown Jewish Madame Bovary escapes the navel-gazing boundaries of the personal-diary docu
Fresh: Phyllis and Harold has extraordinary breadth and depth and has been made with wit, compassion and imagination, and it reflects the complexity of life itself.
Fresh: It's a fascinating plea, on Kleine's part, to make sense of the many cul-de-sacs and hidden passageways in her mother's life. She doesn't succeed, but you have the distinct feeling that she couldn't have.
