Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Name: Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Genre: Comedy, Drama

United Kingdom, United States · 1990
Rated PG-13 · 1h 35m
Director Jim Abrahams
Starring Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Tobolowsky, Dinah Manoff
Genre Comedy, Drama

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

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The Associated Press by

The wrong version of Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael must have been released, because this sloppy-looking film never should have been allowed into theaters. [11 Oct 1990]

The New York Times by Caryn James

Though ''Roxy Carmichael'' is never as fresh or powerful as it might have been, it is a sweetly engaging film in the Barry Levinson school: just when you think it might fall into a bottomless pit of sentimentality, it stops short.

Chicago Tribune by Dave Kehr

As the movie slowly slogs along to its dreary, moralistic conclusion, Ryder`s sharp presence seems to recede into a candy-colored fog of sentimentality.

Washington Post by Hal Hinson

Where the movie sabotages her, though, is by insisting that all she really wants is to be like everyone else.

Entertainment Weekly by Nicholas Fonseca

An offbeat pic pointlessly oversaturated with grating characters who look like they got lost on their way to a John Waters fan club convention.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The movie sinks into contrived plot manipulation.