Captain Fantastic
A strange man, Ben Cash, who lives in the wilderness with his wife and six children, here he teaches them how to communicate and behave in the hard situations, and teaches them in the house philosophy and politics, struggles against making his wife's wish before her death, as she has committed suicide, but he faces the refusal of his wife's father.
August 16, 1979 in USA
23 July 1973, Westchester, Illinois, USA
13 March 1992, London, England, UK
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
13 November 1967, Marshall, Minnesota, USA
2 April 1975, Jerome, Idaho, USA
20 October 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
26 October 1998, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
January 31, 2017
Matt Ross has crafted a truly fantastic tale of the joy of living in the wild while physically training and home schooling a brood of children, far from the madding crowd.
September 12, 2016
This is really a movie for upper-middle class hipsters who once fancied themselves firebrands and status quo-challengers in college, but now consider only buying organic food at Whole Foods and not vaccinating their kids to be radical acts.
March 29, 2017
The caricature of self-righteous leftism on display here is spot on, and Captain Fantastic walks a fine line between seeing the good faith in Ben's Thoreau-like beliefs and acknowledging the rather authoritarian way in which he pushes them on his kids.
January 01, 2017
Films want you to root for the guy with the alternative lifestyle or the radical take on the world, thumbing his nose at the stuffed shirts. Captain Fantastic isn't so sure.
February 14, 2017
An unusual film that oscillates between a road movie and the chronicle of a family that beats in its terrain any alien domesticity and that concludes like a very preNobel homage to Bob Dylan. [Full review in Spanish]
November 21, 2016
[It] shines as a sort of wish-fulfillment fantasy for a certain outdoors-oriented mind set, which almost makes up for its over-the-top moments and underwritten characters.
July 28, 2016
Matt Ross' screenplay occasionally stumbles (especially late in the proceedings) and the ending opts for a too-facile resolution but the director/writer offers moments of genuine power and pathos that make it easy to forgive the missteps.
February 08, 2017
What appears to be a brutal critique of the capitalist way of life ends up being in reality a critique of left Utopias. [Full review in Spanish]
July 22, 2016
It's a rare movie that asks such big questions - about parenting, about family, about modern-day America - and comes up with answers that are moving and meaningful, that make you laugh and cry.
December 31, 2016
Under the Sundance-ian stylings -- "Little Miss Sunshine Goes prepper!" -- there's a whiff of mold to this script.
July 22, 2016
Ross delivers a warm, humorous, enlightening family drama marked by strong performances ...
