Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell

Four 12-year-old girls grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970.

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30,446 ratings

PG-13, 102 min.

Directed by: Lesli Linka Glatter

Release Date: October 20, 1995

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DVD Release Date: December 21, 1999

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  • June 11, 2008
    I really really wanted to see this movie because it had Devon Sawa in it. He was the worst part of the movie. It was the four main characters and their chemistry that made this movie fun.
  • March 5, 2008
    A wonderful idea: the cast looked like a total dream... on paper!

    Not good.
  • January 23, 2008
    made me laugh so many times,watched it constantly growing up
  • September 21, 2007
    "Now and Then" is a misguided tale that beautifully captures the many painful and joyful ups and downs of four best friends growing up in the 1970's. Best compared to "Stand By Me" and "Man in the Moon," this tender movie gently touches base with the delicate time period when you...( read more)ng girls experience the confusions and emotions that are present in the process of puberty. Beyond its treatment of family dynamics, the plot entertains through adventure; that adventure underscores the loss of freedom in American childhood to do dangerous things typical in a Baby-Boomer childhood that we dared not tell our parents. The cast was solid, although the youth-to-adult match-ups bothered me. I recommend it completely.
  • August 12, 2007
    ......dull......
  • October 28, 2009
    OMG!!! its mah fave!!
    love christina ricci so much.
  • September 29, 2009
    Loved this movie growing up...even though it had Rose O' Flippin Donnell in ti.
  • September 27, 2009
    This was my movie I grew up loving. This is one that I always liked.
  • September 19, 2009
    Not a bad piece of film. I liked the childhood flashback storyline. However, the lower-down storyline was pretty flimsy, I really didn't really like how any of that turned out, nor was I really interested in it to begin with. However, the scenes they had with the boys were price...( read more)less. I liked that, but most of all, the surprise cameo by Brendon Frasier was a very inspiring scene. This movie was a lot of things, but for some reason it felt like it was being too many. Some movies can survive without a real plot behind it, but this one just felt kind of empty. Great scenes, great characters, but overall it did not achieve what it set out to do.
  • August 12, 2009
    I can't remember much of this movie, but it was on of my great faves back when I was younger! I definitely need to watch it again some time soon!

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  • softballchick454
    July 30, 2008
    its my favorite movie ever! and i am like roberta and they should make another one! and it reminds me of me and my friends
  • xlxmxx
    February 25, 2008
    Hiya :Dxx Aht Film Is Eh Best film A Hiv Ever Seen :D:X Man Pua Eh Best :D:X
  • ShimmerMePretty
    November 1, 2007
    Such a good movie when I was younger it was awesome and today its still a great movie I love it :]
  • samanthacovell
    September 1, 2007
    I am only 15 and this is one of my favorite movies. I was three when this movie came out and when my mom rented it, i didnt really remember much of it. I could only remember 4 grown women, sitting in a tree house. When I was about 13, I was watching it on t.v. not realizing what I was watching until the end. I fell in love. I went out and bought the movie shortly afterwards and still watch it every once and a while. This is a great movie and I think that every teenage girl should watch it. It has some good points about life in it.
  • ladywolf712002
    June 10, 2007
    This is my all time favorite movie about coming of age. A lot more interesting then Stand By Me. Don't get me wrong I liked Stand By Me too, but I feel that the girls version was a lot better and more exciting. I can watch Now and Then over and over. Stand by Me I can watch once in a while.

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