The Florida Project

R 7.6
2017 1 hr 52 min Drama

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

  • Cast:
    Brooklynn Prince , Bria Vinaite , Willem Dafoe , Christopher Rivera , Valeria Cotto , Mela Murder , Caleb Landry Jones

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Reviews

Karry
2017/10/06

Best movie of this year hands down!

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VividSimon
2017/10/07

Simply Perfect

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GurlyIamBeach
2017/10/08

Instant Favorite.

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Borserie
2017/10/09

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

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JoeMovieWatcher
2017/10/10

First of all, don't expect a feel-good movie here. Far from it. I don't know if you can actually write a "SPOILER" for this putrid movie. It's rotten already.If you really want to spend a depressing night listening to a foul-mouthed shrew spewing F-bombs and worse in front of rude, unsupervised elementary school kids, here's your movie. If not, don't say you weren't warned. Yeah, I'm gonna judge this piece of garbage. HOW COULD YOU, SEAN BAKER...? How can anyone expose little children to the kind of foul language and adult behavior that the kids in this movie were exposed to? Some of these reviews sicken me, actually PRAISING the filmmaker for a movie with a kid put in the bathroom while her Mom turns tricks in their hotel room.He should not be proud of this, and anyone who thinks this is okay should maybe rethink their own morals here. The ratings led us to choose this on Netflix. It was a big mistake to trust ratings.Don't look for any plot here beyond a series of bad decisions by an awful mother ("Halley") that end up exposing her feral child ("Moonee") to perverts and creeps, and all too predictably, after a long overdue period of her own misbehavior, lead to her kid heading into the foster care system. There is no redemption or growth here. I consider these filmmakers CREEPS and CHILD ABUSERS for making this movie. I feel sorry for any kid whose parent would let their child be involved in such an obscenity-laced production as this. They have allowed their own child to be robbed of their innocence long before their time. They are as irresponsible as the mother portrayed in this movie....or worse, since she was a made-up character and they really did this.Willem Dafoe plays a likeable, decent, humane and admirable motel manager who does his best to protect the pathetic, immature, foul-mouthed Halley from the consequences of her own lunatic actions and appalling parenting. Dafoe and the other semi-decent supporting actors are the only bright spots in this movie and the only reason I'm giving this two stars. ONE FINAL WARNING: As some of the more honest reviewers will admit, this film has an abrupt and unsatisfying ending. Moonee breaks free of Child Protective Services officers and desperately heads for DisneyWorld's Magic Castle with her little friend, Jancey. They simply run in through an unguarded exit, as if that's gonna happen.....and then, as they near the Magic Castle, the movie mercifully just stops.

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abderrahmanelarchi
2017/10/11

The story of this movie has just no point or purpose at all , it is overrated and does not include any creativity, this type of movies is similar to "lady bird" and I hope that I'd avoid such movies in the future and do not waste my time

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MrDHWong
2017/10/12

The Florida Project is a drama film starring Willem Dafoe. Directed and co-written by Sean Baker (Tangerine), it a raw and unrelenting look into a side of American culture many try to ignore but at the same time cannot look away from.In the city of Kissimmee, Florida, six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) lives with her anarchic young mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) in a run-down motel. To pass the time during Summer break, Moonee spends her days with other motel resident kids, causing mischief, conning tourists out of money, and getting on the nerves of the motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).The film makes no attempts at sugarcoating its depiction of lower-class civilian life in America. As unsympathetic as many of the characters are, they all seem like realistic people most will have encountered at some point and director Sean Baker chooses a more down-to-earth approach at showing their lifestyles rather than the usual Hollywood-manufactured sentiment. All of the young child actors were fantastic and gave convincing performances. However, it is Willem Dafoe who shines the most as the serious but well-intentioned motel manager Bobby as he tries to help his guests deal with any outbreak of chaos. This is not an easy film for a casual viewer to sit through, but if one can stomach some of the more extreme moments, then I suggest seeing it at least once.I rate it 7/10

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werdnaoslek
2017/10/13

Yeah this movie could have been Oscar worthy if it weren't for that terribly executed, irredeemably bad ending. I get the premise of it but I refuse to believe that there couldn't have been a better way to do it. I was loving everything else up until the last 60 seconds, which was seriously one of the most unsatisfying endings to any film that came out in 2017. It's such a shame.

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