The Greening Of Whitney Brown (2011)

Critic Reviews

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  It's all extraordinarily predictable, made no more palatable by flat characters and a dull cast.

• Sara Stewart, New York Post

  There's a fair amount of greening, but that doesn't make Whitney any less grating.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  As she learns the value of public schools and pickup trucks, her erstwhile friends in Philadelphia seem happy to be rid of her. By movie's end, you'll feel exactly the same.

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  It flies off the rails in a third act so devoid of logic it could have been concocted on the moon.

• Ronnie Scheib, Variety

  Helmer Odiorne creates a suitably groomed pastoral setting for Gilchriest's relentlessly upbeat script, but does little to suggest a context larger than Whitney's limited p.o.v.

• Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

  By turns pleasant and preposterous, The Greening of Whitney Brown is a reverse Cinderella tale for tweens.

• Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media

  So-so tween riches-to-rags story has positive lesson.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  An obnoxious and self-absorbed little girl tries to cope with a down-scaled life.

• Nick Schager, Time Out New York

  The Greening of Whitney Brown is content to be a typical piece of tween rural-versus-urban fluff from the old Hannah Montana: The Movie mold.

• R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant Magazine

  This saddles-and-sass mash-ups' most telling image is an equine hoof painted electric pink.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  A kind of equal opportunity economic hard times cinema proclaiming that Occupy Wall Street attitude is not just for grownups, the movie poses the question: What's a One Percent spoiled tween to do when dumped CEO Dad's credit cards are beyond maxed out.

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