Lullaby
The movie explores all the right to die issues of a cancer stricken father who has has chosen to stop all medication and take himself off life support within forty-eight hours. One sees how the Jewish family members respond to each other and how the father says goodbye to his wife, son, and daughter.
29 August 1948, York, Pennsylvania, USA
13 September 1953, Massachusetts, USA
12 May 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 May 1967, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
19 March 1986, Gorkiy, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]
27 August 1964, Minden, Nebraska, USA
June 12, 2014
A tortured weepie that can't quite figure out what sort of movie it is, "Lullaby" wears out its welcome fairly quickly.
June 13, 2014
A film like "Lullaby" should both enlighten and inspire debate. Instead, it feels simultaneously superficial and overbearing, albeit with a few moments that do indeed resonate.
June 18, 2014
Jenkins and Hedlund do great work here but it's the unnecessary supporting characters who undermine what could've been a strong drama.
June 12, 2014
The kind of manipulative, cliché-infested hokum that alienates moviegoers by its insistence on hogging all the tears.
June 16, 2014
After about ten minutes of enduring this manipulative, seemingly-endless weeper you'll just wish he would go ahead and die already.
April 12, 2016
Lullaby is the kind of film that's best described as a having been cobbled together from an indie scrapyard.
June 13, 2014
Family reunites for dying dad in warm drama; some swearing.
June 12, 2014
With the ever-expanding number of adults able to stay alive longer because of medical advancements, quality-of-life issues are top of mind for many folks. It's the way the filmmaker makes the point that is the problem.
June 13, 2014
Lullaby gives a heartbreakingly realistic portrayal of the disease and not just what it does to the body, but to the family as well.
August 24, 2014
You'll walk away feeling sombre and slightly downtrodden but, thanks to a handful of strong performances and a strong emotional core, the central debate will linger in your mind, which is exactly what "Lullaby" sets out to do.
June 13, 2014
The digital photography is crummy, and the characters who most need to convince ... feel created out of whole cloth. Polyester cloth, at that.
