Philip is a disabled billionaire, who feels that life is not worth living. To help him in his day-to-day routine, he hires Del, a parolee who is trying to reconnect with his estranged wife. What begins as a professional relationship develops into a friendship as Del shows his grouchy charge that life is worth living.... (Full plot summary below)
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Philip is a disabled billionaire, who feels that life is not worth living. To help him in his day-to-day routine, he hires Del, a parolee who is trying to reconnect with his estranged wife. What begins as a professional relationship develops into a friendship as Del shows his grouchy charge that life is worth living.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFrench cinema has a lot going for it, but the one thing Americans do best is story. And so “Intouchables,” now The Upside, has a story that finally works. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe film’s predictability is offset by what Hart and Cranston bring to the proceedings. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe Upside is a movie that somehow works, at least some of the time, even when it shouldn’t. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattThe racial politics feel almost willfully retro, but the actors’ charisma cuts through: Forced to work strictly from the neck up, Cranston is just the right amount of gruff; Hart, aside from a deeply unnecessary catheter scene, gives a gratifyingly prickly and vulnerable performance. Somewhere beneath this passable-enough Upside, there’s a better, sharper movie for them both. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe pairing of Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart in the lead roles pays off big time, with more laugh-out-loud moments than the original and some particularly hilarious work from Hart, who steps up his game after his fun if broad-minded performances in Get Hard and the Ride Along movies. |
| Screen InternationalAllan HunterIn the end, The Upside is the sum of its good players and dubious politics, wrenching genuine tears from a story that celebrates the rich promise of life in all its shades of joy and heartbreak. |
| Original-CinKim HughesWhile entertaining, The Upside lacks the original film’s fizzy spark, the prickly charisma of its co-stars, and the tantalizingly sense that this incredible story — which is actually true — happened on a planet we would recognize as our own. |
| The GuardianJordan HoffmanThis is not much more than a light crowdpleaser, but when you’ve got two powerhouse performers like this it is very difficult not to find oneself at least temporarily charmed. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonEven if you haven’t seen The Intouchables, you have a pretty good idea where the drama is headed. Still, The Upside nonetheless does an amiable job of taking you there, thanks to hard work by the two leads. |
| EmpireIan FreerIt doesn’t do anything different from the original, but the upside to The Upside is two strong, winning performances that keep you going down a well worn path. |
