What Maisie Knew
The offspring of a hot-headed musician and an art dealer, little Maisie learns the hard way about how difficult divorce can be on a youngster as she is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
6 April 1975, Rome, New York, USA
4 August 1965, Montréal, Québec, Canada
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
15 August 1970, New York City, New York, USA
10 March 1966, New York City, New York, USA
20 September 1961, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
28 November 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
25 August 1976, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
16 January 1982, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
September 16, 2013
The filmmakers, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, seem not at all intimidated by Henry James's formidable prose.
June 12, 2013
The film is touching, filled with taste and care, but not enough to avoid being coy and sentimental.
June 03, 2013
It's a study of human nature, not at its worst, but at its most typically pathetic, and it goes to show that the more things don't change, the more they stay lousy.
September 07, 2013
Some scenes are tinged with dark comedy; some are heartrending; and some fuse the two, as when Maisie comforts a tearful friend during a sleepover in Susanna's huge Manhattan townhouse, while the delinquent grown-ups indulge themselves downstairs.
January 10, 2014
Esta é a grande tragédia dos maus pais: o fato de não merecerem o amor incondicional que recebem dos pequenos seres que destroem com tanta facilidade.
August 21, 2013
Sensitive and almost unwatchably perceptive about dysfunctional families -- and it's acted with knife-sharp precision.
June 04, 2013
On the surface, this indie does sound like standard-issue material, but its dynamics are far more complex than its simple exterior.
November 04, 2013
Scott McGehee and David Siegel's adaptation commendably preserves the book's child perspective even if it doesn't quite match the characteristically dark shades of the author's moral fare.
June 03, 2013
The result is a film that deeply engages us on multiple levels. Not only do we wonder what Maisie knows and how she knows it, we want to get this seedling to a place where she won't have to be transplanted every day.
June 03, 2013
What Maisie Knew gives the audience a ground-eye view of its mesmerizing title character, a plucky, charismatic New Yorker who navigates downtown bars and building lobbies with the street savvy of a pro.
