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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
The cinematic version of this children’s book retains an air of wonder steeped in simple resonate clichés for younger viewers enduring the same hardships as Milton Adams.
Milton's Secret
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- Canada
- 2016
- · 88m
Director
Barnet Bain
Cast
Michelle Rodriguez,
Mia Kirshner,
Donald Sutherland,
David Sutcliffe,
Ella Ballentine
Genre
Drama,
Family
11 year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world. With his parents constantly stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, Milton feels his whole world is in crisis. But when his Grandpa Howard comes to visit, he discovers anxiety about the past and worrying about the future only make things worse and prevent him from finding true happiness moment to moment.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Based on the picture book co-authored by Power of Now superstar Eckhart Tolle, Milton’s Secret carries a powerful and important message, but the film feels ham-fisted, clichéd and overearnest at times, especially for adult viewers.
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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Sutherland brings some believable warmth to a film whose spiritual "aha" moments are generally packaged too tidily to hit home.
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Movie Nation by Roger Moore
Movies like this grate largely because of their test tube “solutions” to real world problems as old as the species.
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Variety by Geoff Berkshire
Even a prickly pro like Sutherland can’t do anything to elevate a hokey self-help lecture disguised as family entertainment.
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Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
Even for something preaching spiritual tranquility, Milton’s Secret exhibits the barest trace of a pulse.
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