
Ron Hall (Greg Kinnear) lost track of what matters most in life. It took an affair, a confession, a dream and an unlikely friendship with a homeless man to help him remember. From the outside, Ron Hall's seemingly charmed life looked pretty perfect: He had a flourishing art business, a beautiful wife, Debbie (Renée Zellweger), two fine teen children, and an amazing fifteen thousand square foot house in Fort Worth, Texas. But appearances can be deceptive.... (Full plot summary below)
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Ron Hall (Greg Kinnear) lost track of what matters most in life. It took an affair, a confession, a dream and an unlikely friendship with a homeless man to help him remember. From the outside, Ron Hall's seemingly charmed life looked pretty perfect: He had a flourishing art business, a beautiful wife, Debbie (Renée Zellweger), two fine teen children, and an amazing fifteen thousand square foot house in Fort Worth, Texas. But appearances can be deceptive.
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| Pasadena WeeklyCarl KozlowskiSame Kind of Different As Me is different than most of the movies at the box office right now, and worth seeing if you're looking for something to make you feel good about humanity in this utterly insane era. |
| VarietyAmy Nicholson"Same Kind of Different as Me" is a strange, sincere and sometimes clumsy plea for old-fashioned Christian empathy. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshSame Kind of Different as Me takes its time, but the performances by Kinnear, Zellweger and especially Hounsou sneak up on you, building to an emotional, but not overstated climax. |
| ReviewExpress.comDiana SaengerVery apparent how much a little kindness and stepping out of our own shoes might make a big difference to someone's life. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerYet again we have a film with a lovely, life-affirming, uplifting message — unfortunately delivered in such a heavy-handed, gooey-sweet manner that audiences will exit the theater in a near-diabetic coma. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenIt can be hard to disagree with the heart and events of this true tale, except for when the movie reveals itself to be mighty self-congratulatory. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedIt’s so sincere and admirable that it seems churlish to voice objections, but the fact remains that it isn’t very good. |
| Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichEarnest to a fault and soft-edged in its approach to faith (God is more in the margins here than he is a central, narrative-driving presence), yet direct and moving in some scene-by-scene specifics because of their basis in reality. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreZellweger brings that lovely vulnerability that “Jerry Maguire” first introduced to the world. |
| TheWrapDave WhiteSame Kind of Different as Me works more effectively when its talented cast is given freedom to engage on an interpersonal level and its various political subtexts are sidelined. |