The Florida Project

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The Florida Project

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2017

1h 55m

Drama

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Six-year-old Moonee and her two best friends forge their own adventures, while Moonee's struggling mom and a kindhearted motel manager protect the kids from the harsh reality that surrounds them.

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The Florida Project offers a colorfully empathetic look at an underrepresented part of the population that proves absorbing even as it raises sobering questions about modern America.

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Ed Potton

The Times (UK)

07/29/2022

It’s superficially less bleak than Tangerine, rendered by Baker in tropical colours, but poverty lurks throughout.

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Christy Lemire

What the Flick?!

09/26/2018

9.6/10

I knew form the first shot that I was watching a truly great movie... It's so real, it's so raw.

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Kambole Campbell

One Room With A View

08/25/2018

5/5

A work that combines boundless energy and childlike enthusiasm with dark social realism, Sean Baker's wildly inventive style of filmmaking has resulted in the gorgeous masterpiece that is The Florida Project.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

10/13/2024

5/5

Baker’s brave and bracing film is far from a whimsical fable. It is a dramatic thumbnail depiction of a growing section of this nation’s culture that many may not want to admit exists, let alone condone.

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Trevor Johnston

Radio Times

07/09/2024

5/5

Its potent combination of empathy, observation and miraculously natural performances make this a modern classic, with strong echoes of Ken Loach's very best work.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

03/17/2022

3.5/4

The charm, wrenching emotion, and compassion that Baker finds in his characters are enhanced by his unique touches of humor and unlikely optimism.

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Blade R

@BladeRene 13h

The Florida Project is a beautiful and deeply human film that finds extraordinary emotion in ordinary lives. It never judges its characters or tries to manipulate the audience, instead allowing their humanity to speak for itself. Bobby is the heart of the film. He understands both the struggling residents of the motel and the tourists staying just minutes away at Disney World, making him the emotional bridge between two completely different worlds. I interpret the ending as Moonee escaping into her imagination rather than physically reaching Disney. It's a heartbreaking conclusion that captures the innocence of childhood while highlighting the harsh reality surrounding her. The film is subtle, compassionate, and emotionally powerful without ever becoming sentimental.

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Greg S

@Greg_RT Jul 22

Genuinely the worst film I've ever seen. The ending is so abrupt that the entire cinema let out an audible groan.

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may M.

@maymoni Jun 27

This film moved me to tears, the children’s acting is phenomenal. This movie represents a reality for so many people and children. Reminded me of my own childhood.

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R H.

@X5leave Jun 12

Amazing movie, don’t know why it’s rated lower for audience..

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Brandy D.

@letmedreamalittlelonger Jun 10

Poetic, boring in the way you still can’t stop watching.

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Jordan P.

@jordanp8274 May 31

While it’s not the worst movie ever, this film just has no direction, and isn’t specially about anything, no pay off, neither does it have any direction, random scenes that just don’t add to plot at all, you can take out half of these scenes and it doesn’t change the movie at all. Again not the worst movie ever but generally boring and doesn’t really accomplish anything. There generally is no plot and rather just a compilation of random things happening at a hotel or just kids being bad sums the whole movie, the ending is actually just stupid. It’s not even that I didn’t like it was literally just stupid, the first half of the movie doesn’t even really matter, the movie tries to make you feel bad about the mom, but really just does the opposite, I watched this for free and still feel robbed.

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Synopsis

Six-year-old Moonee and her two best friends forge their own adventures, while Moonee's struggling mom and a kindhearted motel manager protect the kids from the harsh reality that surrounds them.

Director: Sean Baker
Producer: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Shih-Ching Tsou, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca Silvestri
Screenwriter: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Cre Film, June Pictures, Freestyle Picture Company, Cinereach
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Disturbing Behavior|Sexual References|Some Drug Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 6, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 30, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.8M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)