Now and Then is as if Stand By Me (1986) and The Babysitter's Club (1995) were thrown together in a blender. It has fairly decent acting (Rosie O'Donnell and Walter Sparrow give excellent performances) and a pretty good soundtrack. Set in the nostalgic era of Super-8, modern suburbs and kids still frequently going outside, 1970, Now and Then is the story of four adult women going down memory lane in the Nineties and talking about their memorable summer as children. As kids they were all dealing with their own issues: Roberta was obsessed with death and "playing dead" after her mother was killed, Chrissy has no idea what sex is and feels immature compared to her friends, Teeny is a stuck-up only child who seems to know too much and Samantha's father has run off; her parents are getting a divorce. Their summer goal is to save up enough money for a large treehouse, but they get sidetracked when ghosts, family matters and their own growing up all interfere.
Now And Then was a pretty good movie but definitely not original, it's a girly version of Stand By Me and mimics nearly every aspect of it. Christina Ricci was in it as the childhood Roberta, and she's a really great actress, no doubt about it, but she was in so many similar roles during the 1990's (The Addams Family, The Ice Storm, Mermaids, etc.) that she's overused and not very effective once you've already seen her in a million other things. Just like Dakota and Elle Fanning and Chloe Grace Moretz are overused way too much in the 21st century, Christina Ricci was in their place during the Nineties. She does a good acting job but it's just not convincing when she's been in so many other movies like Now and Then.
The plot was very childish (yeah, I know it's about kids), but childish that it makes the characters acting like eight-year-olds rather than their supposed ages in the story. Still, the cast choice as adults was amazing, they look very much as you would picture the characters to be as grown-ups. Rosie O' Donnell looks exactly like an older Christina Ricci and so on.
Now and Then isn't bad, it's a typical nostalgia movie. It isn't as good as Running With Scissors (2006) or The Ice Storm (1997) but it manages to keep you watching, so you've got to give it credit for that.
Now And Then was a pretty good movie but definitely not original, it's a girly version of Stand By Me and mimics nearly every aspect of it. Christina Ricci was in it as the childhood Roberta, and she's a really great actress, no doubt about it, but she was in so many similar roles during the 1990's (The Addams Family, The Ice Storm, Mermaids, etc.) that she's overused and not very effective once you've already seen her in a million other things. Just like Dakota and Elle Fanning and Chloe Grace Moretz are overused way too much in the 21st century, Christina Ricci was in their place during the Nineties. She does a good acting job but it's just not convincing when she's been in so many other movies like Now and Then.
The plot was very childish (yeah, I know it's about kids), but childish that it makes the characters acting like eight-year-olds rather than their supposed ages in the story. Still, the cast choice as adults was amazing, they look very much as you would picture the characters to be as grown-ups. Rosie O' Donnell looks exactly like an older Christina Ricci and so on.
Now and Then isn't bad, it's a typical nostalgia movie. It isn't as good as Running With Scissors (2006) or The Ice Storm (1997) but it manages to keep you watching, so you've got to give it credit for that.