Ideal Home
A child suddenly appears to be Erasmus's grandson. It seems that Paul and Erasmus, two couples who were not willing to give up their lives in return for raising children in their lives, this little child who will appear in their lives will teach them the value of the family.
4 January 1949, Phillips, Texas, USA
13 October 1967, San Jose, California, USA
1953
6 May 1968, Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
June 29, 2018
Likable and well-acted.June 29, 2018
Ideal Home may not be a total dud, but it is a huge waste of both Rudd and Coogan's talent.June 28, 2018
Coogan and Rudd display real chemistry, bouncing barbs off each other with an undercurrent of affection, and Gore is cute but never nauseatingly so.June 28, 2018
"Ideal Home" offers a droll spin on queer family values. It may not be deep, but it is frequently quite funny.June 29, 2018
Risqué humor and a well-calibrated Paul Rudd performance help elevate this comedy above lazy, movie-of-the-week plotting.June 29, 2018
The once considerable Andrew Fleming (Bad Dreams, The Craft, Dick) writes and directs with an eye cast in the direction of a weekly sitcom, not serious characterJune 29, 2018
Funnier would have been better, but the warm inclusiveness makes its point.June 29, 2018
... struggles to balance its broad comedy with its more sentimental tendencies, and the result is more progressive in attitude than execution.June 22, 2018
Flaws and all, this is a film with a feeling for human complexities, a degree of visual intelligence and its heart in the right place. Considering the current dismal state of big-screen American comedy, that feels like a gift.June 28, 2018
"Ideal Home" is genuinely funny, and the poignant and pithy script is aided by the chemistry between its stars, who are equally adept with comedic punch lines as they are with dramatic gut punches.June 26, 2018
The broad strokes of the performances make the film's occasional lurches into sentimentality seem especially jarring.June 28, 2018
Ideal Home is too cartoonish to meaningfully celebrate the beauty of the families we choose, and too casual to accomplish much else.