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Curly Sue

1991

John Hughes

James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alisan Porter, John Getz ...

4.5

3,357

Comedy John Hughes dishes out the sentiment by the ladle-full in Curly Sue. The film stars James Belushi as Bill Dancer, a down-on-his-luck drifter who lives by his wits on the highways and byways of the United States, stealing free meals, slipping into movie theaters, and sleeping in welfare hotels. Bill is also the guardian of cute pint-size moppet Curly Sue (Alisan Porter), a cutey pie cross between Little Orphan Annie and Tatum O'Neal's ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Curly Sue is a cornball, soupy, syrupy, sentimental exercise in audience manipulation, but that's the good news, because this is a movie that works. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Randy White Common Sense Media	"A violent, offensive comedy."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Curly Sue' is a cornball, soupy, syrupy, sentimental exercise in audience manipulation, but that's the good news, because this is a movie that works. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Randy White Common Sense Media	"John Hughes hits a new low with this movie apparently aimed at the preteen set. Filled with superfluous profanity and gratuitous violence, there is little to redeem this exercise in vulgarity. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Peter Rainer Los Angeles Times	"'Curly Sue' which was written and directed by Hughes, is intermittently knockabout, but mostly it mainlines Hughes’ Dickensian weepie mode"	NEU
United Kingdom	Andy Klein Empire	"It's hard to like a film that tries so hard to be nauseatingly cute - especially when, as in this case, it fails. (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	TV Guide	"'Curly Sue' is an example of filmmaking by the numbers--here we cry, there we laugh--where the pawn-actors are moved hither and yon on the whim of contrivance, seldom as a result of logical reasoning."	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"From the opening montage of childhood moments through to the contrived resolution, this is utterly formulaic. Hughes' leaden direction and script give no hint of the skill that distinguishes his best work."	NEG

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