Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsABFFPride MonthOutfest OutfrontsSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer? Create account
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

Men, Women & Children

  • 2014
  • R
  • 1h 59m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
33K
YOUR RATING
Men, Women & Children (2014)
Men, Women and Children follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. The film attempts to stare down social issues such as video game culture, anorexia, infidelity, fame hunting, and the proliferation of illicit material on the internet. As each character and each relationship is tested, we are shown the variety of roads people choose - some tragic, some hopeful - as it becomes clear that no one is immune to this enormous social change that has come through our phones, our tablets, and our computers.
Play trailer2:50
21 Videos
99+ Photos
ComedyDrama

A group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communications, their self-images, and their love liv... Read allA group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communications, their self-images, and their love lives.A group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communications, their self-images, and their love lives.

  • Director
    • Jason Reitman
  • Writers
    • Chad Kultgen
    • Jason Reitman
    • Erin Cressida Wilson
  • Stars
    • Kaitlyn Dever
    • Rosemarie DeWitt
    • Ansel Elgort
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    33K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jason Reitman
    • Writers
      • Chad Kultgen
      • Jason Reitman
      • Erin Cressida Wilson
    • Stars
      • Kaitlyn Dever
      • Rosemarie DeWitt
      • Ansel Elgort
    • 100User reviews
    • 163Critic reviews
    • 38Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Videos21

    Trailer #2
    Trailer 2:50
    Watch Trailer #2
    Trailer #1
    Trailer 2:12
    Watch Trailer #1
    Clip
    Clip 0:48
    Watch Clip
    Clip
    Clip 1:08
    Watch Clip
    Clip
    Clip 0:52
    Watch Clip
    Clip
    Clip 0:55
    Watch Clip
    Clip
    Clip 0:48
    Watch Clip
    Men, Women & Children: How You Feeling?
    Clip 0:52
    Watch Men, Women & Children: How You Feeling?
    Men, Women & Children: Dangers Of Selfies
    Clip 0:48
    Watch Men, Women & Children: Dangers Of Selfies
    Men, Women & Children: You Didn't Respond
    Clip 0:48
    Watch Men, Women & Children: You Didn't Respond
    Men, Women & Children: RL
    Clip 1:07
    Watch Men, Women & Children: RL
    Men, Women & Children: De-Friend
    Clip 0:54
    Watch Men, Women & Children: De-Friend

    Photos181

    Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Jennifer Garner and Kaitlyn Dever in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Kaitlyn Dever and Ansel Elgort in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Olivia Crocicchia and Travis Tope in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Rosemarie DeWitt in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Judy Greer and Olivia Crocicchia in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Will Peltz and Elena Kampouris in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Kaitlyn Dever and Ansel Elgort in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Dennis Haysbert and Rosemarie DeWitt in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Judy Greer and Dean Norris in Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Adam Sandler, David Denman, and Dean Norris in Men, Women & Children (2014)

    Top cast

    Edit
    Kaitlyn Dever
    Kaitlyn Dever
    • Brandy Beltmeyer
    Rosemarie DeWitt
    Rosemarie DeWitt
    • Helen Truby
    Ansel Elgort
    Ansel Elgort
    • Tim Mooney
    Jennifer Garner
    Jennifer Garner
    • Patricia Beltmeyer
    Adam Sandler
    Adam Sandler
    • Don Truby
    Judy Greer
    Judy Greer
    • Donna Clint
    Dean Norris
    Dean Norris
    • Kent Mooney
    Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Timothée Chalamet
    Timothée Chalamet
    • Danny Vance
    Olivia Crocicchia
    Olivia Crocicchia
    • Hannah Clint
    Katherine Hughes
    Katherine Hughes
    • Brooke Benton
    • (as Katherine C. Hughes)
    Elena Kampouris
    Elena Kampouris
    • Allison Doss
    Will Peltz
    Will Peltz
    • Brandon Lender
    Travis Tope
    Travis Tope
    • Chris Truby
    David Denman
    David Denman
    • Jim Vance
    Dennis Haysbert
    Dennis Haysbert
    • Secretluvur
    J.K. Simmons
    J.K. Simmons
    • Allison's Dad
    Colby Arps
    Colby Arps
    • Tanner
    • Director
      • Jason Reitman
    • Writers
      • Chad Kultgen
      • Jason Reitman
      • Erin Cressida Wilson
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    More like this

    Miss Stevens
    6.6
    Miss Stevens
    Hot Summer Nights
    6.4
    Hot Summer Nights
    The Cobbler
    5.8
    The Cobbler
    Laggies
    6.4
    Laggies
    Reign Over Me
    7.4
    Reign Over Me
    The Spectacular Now
    7.1
    The Spectacular Now
    Worst Friends
    4.5
    Worst Friends
    Labor Day
    6.9
    Labor Day
    Top Five
    6.4
    Top Five
    Spinners
    5.5
    Spinners
    Spanglish
    6.4
    Spanglish
    Paper Towns
    6.2
    Paper Towns

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      This movie premiered in U.S. theaters on October 1, 2014. It was removed from all U.S. theaters by October 30, and made less than one million dollars domestically.
    • Goofs
      Guild Wars does not have a monthly subscription fee, so Tim's dad couldn't cancel anything by calling his credit card company.
    • Quotes

      [Last lines]

      Narrator: [recites extract from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, A Vision of the Human Future in Space] That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. Every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. How frequent their misunderstandings, how fervent their hatreds. Our imagined self-importance, the delusions that we have some privileged position in the Universe are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment, the earth is where we make our stand.There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits, than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

    • Connections
      Featured in Nostalgia Critic: Does "American Beauty" Still Hold Up? (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 In F BWV 1047
      Written by Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performed by Hedwig Bilgram, Manfred Clement, Hans-Martin Linde, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter, Hansheinz Schneeberger and Pierre Thibaud

      Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH under license from Universal Music Enterprises

    User reviews100

    Review
    Review
    Featured review
    6/10
    A tiny bit sexy, a smidge funny, often good, very unnerving but heavy-handed.
    It's very easy to get carried away by Men, Women & Children. From Emma Thompson's sincere, opening narration of doom and foreboding we are led to believe we are in for an emotional ride that will open our eyes, drop our jaws and force us to reassess our obsession with mobile phones, technology and social media.

    But step back to consider for a moment after the event and we see Jason Reitman has delivered just a very simple, clear message: Internet bad, parents worse. Men, Women & Children is an affecting and engaging film, but it doesn't really tell the truth and opts instead for shock and disgust over reason and discussion. Sometimes, though, we do need to hear the worst news in order to reevaluate.

    Men, Women & Children is a dip into the world of a group of high school teenagers, their families, their relationships and their angst played out through texts, Facebook, Twitter and every other online forum that offers as much privacy as a damp tissue over the nether regions in a hurricane. Beyond, or perhaps central to, the teenagers' own problems are those of their parents and, no matter how bad it is for the kids, the adults are in a far deeper quagmire of their own making.

    The principal subject matter of Men, Women & Children is the danger of social media but Reitman merely uses it as a spoon to stir a thick, coagulating mixture of isolation, self-obsession, anorexia, infidelity, lust, pornography, mental health, bereavement, divorce, anger, abandonment, oppression and a hint of rape. Ouch! So much subject matter in so little time? That just about sums it up.

    Writer/director Reitman has tried to shoehorn so much into his two hours of screen time that there is little opportunity to reflect. Indeed, as the final credits faded, I found myself sitting, static, trying to absorb the impact and information with which I had been bludgeoned. Initially, I felt numbed by the subject matter although my overriding feeling was positive about the film itself. It is a worthy attempt to highlight a worrying trend in our society; I'm just not sure it was well executed.

    Billed as a comedy drama, there is little to laugh at in Men, Women & Children. It is a film of extremes that shows the worst of our fears and depicts the darkest of our social media nightmares and you'll need to step back a bit and realize that the world isn't quite this bad (is it?). Reitman it makes plenty of valid points but he nails them firmly to your heart. I'd urge parents and those who live their lives through Facebook to see it, but regard it as a wake up call and not a factual reflection of your impending doom.

    Men, Women & Children is a tiny bit sexy, a smidgen funny, often good, very unnerving and frequently thought provoking but it isn't necessarily entirely accurate and it certainly couldn't be accused of being understated.

    Adam Sandler is more restrained than we have seen him for a good long while as Don, one half of a bored, unloved married couple. On the flip side, Jennifer Garner is so extreme, so, um, psychotic as the overbearing, paranoid, dictatorial Patricia that you hope Quentin Tarantino is going to appear as a guest director in the final third and wipe her out in a glorious hail of gunfire and swishing Samurai swords. Needless to say, that is not on the cards.

    There is actually plenty to enjoy about Men, Women & Children in spite of the heavy-handed delivery. While the adults are busy screwing up their own live and the lives of their children, Brandy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Tim (Ansel Elgort) are quietly, imperfectly attempting to find their own paths through the emotional mayhem. After trying too hard and missing much of the time in The Fault in Our Stars, Elgort brings some much-needed calm and thoughtfulness to the table and the friendship between Tim and Brandy is the calmest but most powerful aspect of Men, Women & Children.

    Men, Women & Children could have done with being filtered to make a greater impact but Reitman has shunned subtlety; why be suggestive when you can make your point with a sledgehammer? Be warned, be concerned, be aware, but don't live in fear of your teenagers and Reitman's prediction that their world is going to hell in a handcart.

    For more reviews from The Squiss, subscribe to my blog and like the Facebook page.
    helpful•22
    12
    • TheSquiss
    • Dec 11, 2014

    Top picks

    Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations
    Sign in

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • October 17, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official Twitter
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Pale Blue Dot
    • Filming locations
      • Austin, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Right of Way Films
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

    Edit
    • Budget
      • $16,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $705,908
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $48,024
      • Oct 5, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,705,908
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      1 hour 59 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

    Related news

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    Men, Women & Children (2014)
    Top Gap
    What is the streaming release date of Men, Women & Children (2014) in Canada?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    • Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • IMDb Developer
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2023 by IMDb.com, Inc.