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The Fundamentals of Caring
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The Fundamentals of Caring

2016
Comedy, Drama
1h 37m
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Avg Percentile 48.87% from 613 total ratings

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Rated 09 Jan 2017
60
40th
The Fundamentals of Caring has the best of a great film and the worst of a bad one. It's acting is so split in either direction, it's interesting to watch. Rudd and Roberts are both fantastic, while Gomez and the rest of the side cast are lackluster at their best. The direction of the film is also good for most of it... until a couple of scenes happen which just look horrible. Overall, it has the makings of a film I could love, but it doesn't commit.
Rated 28 Jun 2016
40
22nd
dying character + xylophone soundtrack = Sundance darling
Rated 29 Jun 2016
80
62nd
Once in a while, a road/buddy movie comes along that is both funny and touching. Although it's hollywood fluff at its core, it managed to be very funny and real. That's all I want from this type of movie and it delivered. Well done.
Rated 22 Jul 2016
50
17th
A middle-of-the-roadmovie that will certainly charm people who have never seen a movie before. It starts off fairly interesting but as the movie progresses and the troubled characters pile up, It becomes more and more apparent that it can only end in pure cheese. And so it did. The "climax" is so forced and ridiculous that it made for the best comedic moment of the entire movie. Paul Rudd comes off as a fine comedy actor but plays a lousy traumatized father.
Rated 06 Aug 2016
88
82nd
A great way to deal with great tragedies in a movie but still makes you laughing.
Rated 09 Jul 2016
67
57th
Pleasant surprise as this easily could have wallowed in the mire of indie tripe. Rudd and Roberts are fantastic in this. It really only shines when it goes outside its cliched boundaries, but that is often enough to make it worthwhile.
Rated 06 Jul 2016
63
44th
It seems a little safe considering the subject material and it manages to avoid a few big potential clichés but falls into others. Roberts is brilliant though and I liked his chemistry with Rudd
Rated 28 Jun 2016
73
78th
Thank you, Netflix, for giving us these feel-good movies.
Rated 23 Aug 2016
32
14th
I'm giving a lavish rating here for this 'heart-warming' oh-so-indie stereotype galore. I'm talking about saccharine overdose along with accompanying nausea. I'm talking about 'learning' life's lessons and not even having to wash hands afterwards.
Rated 17 Jul 2016
6
53rd
I could watch Paul Rudd do anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ytQVaGnSu4
Rated 12 Aug 2016
53
32nd
The only thing I remember about this movie is Slim Jims
Rated 14 Feb 2021
70
58th
A quiet, understated comedy drama with fine, controlled performance from Rudd and Roberts that just manages to avoid heading down the road to cliché. There are some genuine laughs to be had, and the whole thing was generally quite charming. Nice.
Rated 23 Jul 2016
65
83rd
Paul Rudd instantly makes anything watchable, and that's no easy feat. He takes a Lifetime movie of the week and toes the line when it comes to schmaltz overkill. Craig Roberts seems promising and Selena Gomez is a wooden plank.
Rated 17 Sep 2017
69
53rd
Well done and exactly my cup of tea. Score's not the most imaginitive, but alright.
Rated 11 Sep 2016
70
50th
There were some very funny moments, a few cliches. I could especially have done without the redeeming, too-nice pregnant woman. Some things seemed trying a bit too hard to be heartwarming somehow.
Rated 20 Jul 2022
58
60th
Surprisingly good for a Netflix pickup. Based on the synopsis, I expected this to be either a movie-of-the-week or an Oscar bait style film, but the execution is quite fresh. Rudd, Robert and Gomez are pretty good in their roles and have a solid chemistry. Although this doesn’t bring anything new to the road movie formula, it was able to surprise me with a couple of choices along the way. The length was also a plus. My biggest gripe is the distracting and unnecessary CGI towards the end.
Rated 19 Jul 2016
70
41st
I love Rudd. I think I say that every time I see a Rudd movie (I CHECKED, in almost every review I've written about a movie he's in I've said it). Aside from that, it's not a remarkable dramedy but it's not a bad one. It has some good laughs, some heart and teaches us--admittedly--the same kind of stuff that this genre is known for. But it entertains, and that's what we want.
Rated 16 Oct 2016
4
72nd
I'm an absolute fan of the relationship between Rudd and Roberts, and that the film doesn't take itself too seriously. It's not something you haven't seen before, but that doesn't make it any less funny or thoughtful. *Good
Rated 15 Jan 2017
60
89th
Haven't been keeping up with recent wheelchair adventures, meaning I'm not as burned out by the sub-genre as others might. So for me this was simple sweetness on multiple levels. Good nice film.
Rated 03 Jan 2018
95
77th
intelligent, heart-warming & very funny story free of hollywood cliches!
Rated 29 Jun 2016
70
38th
Selena Gomez's face is a so circular that it is distracting. Apart from that, this was a decent and quirky movie with a few laughs. The Peaches character is completely shoehorned into the plot and makes for a lame ending. Also the final scene at the Pit makes zero sense given what just happened. Paul Rudd seems half asleep, which I guess is how he does serious.
Rated 16 Apr 2018
54
9th
Was ok until the baby in the pit.
Rated 08 May 2018
57
79th
#18#, exp3, rw3, story, (ratings), cast.
Rated 05 Nov 2018
84
54th
An odd role for everyone in it, but I loved it nonetheless.
Rated 27 Oct 2019
75
77th
Funny, Goofy and Witty but with a lot of heart. I loved it.
Rated 17 Dec 2019
42
31st
Just because the humor was right up my alley and because, at least in the beginning, it tackles a problematic issue with a lot of humanity. Otherwise a generic product with overused narrative arcs.
Rated 31 Jul 2020
61
57th
Absolutely brilliant chemistry between the male leads, but ran too long on the sole premise of cheeky banter between an abled person and a disabled person.
Rated 11 Dec 2020
17
27th
Never really takes off. There are some good ideas here, but none of them are very well explored. The vehicle for getting Rudd from point A to B, the unimagined, listless relationship between him and the sick, obnoxious kid, is base, drab and ineffective. Gomez's bad acting, and her character in general, only adds to the ill-suited goofiness of the film.
Rated 12 Dec 2021
70
54th
Great feelgood movie. Cool that they picked up hitchhikers, they really gave the film and the lead characters cool insights :). It's a movie about trying to go passed your own boundaries - and the movie explains that well. Also, the movie is about getting over something - but the movie doesn't do that as good.
Rated 23 Mar 2023
70
48th
You're aware right from the beginning that this will be a heartwarming movie, where everyone experiences character growth and the story reaches a big climax. This takes away from the experience, so that you don't get to experience the highs and lows it's attempting to make you feel.
Rated 12 Apr 2023
50
7th
"How the fuck did they get Paul Rudd to be in this?"

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