Bad Behaviour

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Bad Behaviour

2024

1h 47m

Comedy

Drama

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58 Reviews

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The film tells the story of Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Ben Whishaw) while she also navigates the close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt performer daughter, Dylan (Alice Englert).

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Critics Consensus

Despite impressive work from Jennifer Connelly and Alice Englert, Bad Behaviour is too scattered and disjointed to support its unwieldy ambitions.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

12/28/2024

This is an original and auspicious work from [Alice Englert] -- carrying at least some shared DNA with the ashy black comedy of early films by Englert’s mother Jane Campion.

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

06/14/2024

2/4

Englert doesn't wrestle the material into a manageable form, and struggles to find a consistent tone.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

01/04/2024

4/5

The first half is nearly flawless with original character work and laugh-out-loud zingers...

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Abe Friedtanzer

Film Factual

07/24/2024

C

There is a blueprint of a worthwhile story here with three-dimensional characters, but the finished product is severely lacking.

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

07/07/2024

Englert's first feature film as writer/director is intense, surreal, and chaotic at times, but earns its touching moments when they come... The narrative seems to have a life of its own, meandering, flipping on its head, and delving into darkness.

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Russ Simmons

KKFI-FM (Kansas City)

06/21/2024

2/5

The title of “Bad Behaviour” is a bit too on the nose.

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Andrei D

@RT74856639 May 26

Aimless and not always in a good way, struggles to give good actors solid writing

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Drina W

@RT49065329 03/23/2025

This review is for Jennifer Connelly, whose acting saved this film. Can we please get more of her? Cause honestly, girl took a terrible script and some other slightly annoying acting and made this film happen.

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Michael J

@RT12053729 01/29/2025

Fancy pants—let me be comedic by poking fun at ‘enlightenment’ (which looks like it’s going to work at first) but falls on its boring face…. Hard! Watched in on a plane. Would not have endured it at home… so boring. 🥱

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Jeffrey P

@vanillavoodoo1 12/15/2024

Incoherent, uninteresting, and pointless. Imagine being a fly-on-the-wall at a retreat where nothing much happens other than retreat-like stuff until someone gets assaulted with a chair. That’s the half of it. The other half of it deals with some inferred mother/daughter drama with a couple other characters thrown in the middle of it.

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Ceci A

@RT27410061 10/26/2024

I am actually upset to see all these negative reviews of this film. I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was refreshing in its manner of story-telling, with non-linear elements that were not overwhelming to the overall delivery. The comments of it not coming together make me wonder if we watched the same movie. It most definitely comes together. Aside from its structural ingenuity, the film has a perfect touch of absurdity mixed with sincere, heavy emotions and existential dilemmas. I loved the movement (literally her bodily motion) of the daughter throughout the film. I really hope this film gets the love it deserves; I think it will probably have a cult following with time. I really look forward to seeing more from this director.

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awake not woke T

@RT47316723 10/13/2024

Connelly gives an engaging performance, but it's very difficult to like a movie with no heroes . All the characters are unlikable, and Lucy ( Connelly) is a poster child of self absorbed psychopathic narcissism. Everyone else supports her in a delirious codependency that becomes exhausting to watch.

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Synopsis

The film tells the story of Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Ben Whishaw) while she also navigates the close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt performer daughter, Dylan (Alice Englert).

Director: Alice Englert
Producer: Desray Armstrong, Molly Hallam
Screenwriter: Alice Englert
Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Production Co: New Zealand Screen Production Grant, CAA Media Finance, Ask Me About My Films, Fulcrum Media Finance, Badly Behaved Babes, New Zealand Film Commission, Bee-Hive Productions, Sandy Lane Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 14, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 14, 2024
Runtime: 1h 47m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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