What Maisie Knew (2012)


Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely from a child’s point of view.

What Maisie Knew (2012)

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Released Year: 2013
Runtime: 93 minutes
Genre: Drama

Storyline


Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely from a child’s point of view.

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Reviews


100
Observer - Rex Reed
Acutely observed, subtly but sharply written and expertly acted.
100
The New York Times - A.O. Scott
What Maisie Knew lays waste to the comforting dogma that children are naturally resilient, and that our casual, unthinking cruelty to them can be answered by guilty and belated displays of affection. It accomplishes this not by means of melodrama, but by a mixture of understatement and thriller-worthy suspense.
80
The Guardian - Henry Barnes
The adults' behaviour is almost as confusing for us as it is for her. It's a neat trick that reminds us these weighty adult issues are both life-changing and, in the moment, somewhat insignificant to someone Maisie's age.
75
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers
Cartwright, find something sadly timeless in a child torn apart in a custody battle that no one wins, least of all the child.
67
The A.V. Club - Sam Adams
If the idea is for the audience to feel similarly yanked around, then What Maisie Knew succeeds wildly, but it fails to bring much insight to what essentially amounts to a massive parental guilt trip.

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