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Captain Fantastic (15)

Captain Fantastic (15)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.

The critical consensus

A fiercely original, pleasantly unpredictable character piece. This is a gang of outsiders with something valuable to say about the world we live in.

****(*)Helen O'Hara, Empire Online, 18/08/2016

A road movie with heart, humour and a lead prepared to give his youthful co-stars their share of the limelight.

****(*)Neil Smith, Total Film, 05/09/2016

Might best be described as a family movie with very sharp claws.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 07/09/2016

Mortensen stars as a survivalist dad who takes his kids to the woods to teach them authenticity in this low-cal take on The Mosquito Coast.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 08/09/2016

An entertaining, soft-centred salute to the joys and agonies of rugged individualism.

****(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 09/09/2016

What follows has moments of sweetness and a couple of interesting exchanges that skirt around some of the darker edges of the set-up, but in the end there’s not enough depth to buy into the premise or its Hollywood ending.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 09/09/2016

Viggo Mortensen leads an outstanding cast as a grizzled rural eccentric who hits the road with his brood of home-schooled, off-grid children.

****(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 11/09/2016

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Sunday October 9, 2016, until Thursday October 13, 2016. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

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