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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Present stars Isla Fisher and Greg Kinnear as a couple on the brink of divorce, and for some reason, it's up to their kids to stop them from splitting up. Director Christain Ditter and writer Jay Martel toe the family-friendly line, but in a way that trusts their audience and lets the parents watching know they're in on the joke.
Pros Cons Unlike some of Isla Fisher's best films, she and Kinnear don't have the hardest job in the story — the kids do. Fisher and Kinnear get to sit back and play out scenes of disaffected adulthood that scratch the surface of their deeper issues. The Present should be praised for casting child actors that genuinely look the ages they're supposed to be, automatically generating affection for the young characters.
Part of this is because The Present moves so quickly. However, the pace is necessary and engaging until the final fourth of the film, when it resorts to a montage and a rather anticlimactic ending. By nature, the movie's structure means the story needs lots of exposition and repetition. For the most part, it avoids getting bogged down by this. We're thrown into the narrative with the time loop already in play, but it's easy to put the pieces together.
Using child actors always runs the risk of dialogue feeling clunky or forced, and many parts of the script don't need help in that department. The relationship dynamic between the three siblings could have been the strongest part of the film if it had been developed more fully. Their love for each other was poised to be just as powerful, if not more, than their desire to keep their parents together.
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