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A young teenager boy named Alexander, a 12 years old, who struggles against having bad and strange incidents in his life and he gets envious of his family who always seems to have good moments, so before the night of his birthday, he wishes for his family to have such bad days just as him, the thing that brings terrible for them.
25 September 1983, Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA
31 July 1998, Glendale, Arizona, USA
1 June 2001, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
28 August 1961, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29 December 1996
18 July 1968
3 September 1984, USA
16 August 1962, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
11 April 1960, Oakland, California, USA
1982, Rawlins, Wyoming, USA
9 May 1996, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA
9 January 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 September 1980, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
June 13, 2016
It's the rare, current kid movie made with real actors. Unfortunately, it's not remotely adult-funny. That's OK. Parents suffer. It's what they do. Go and suffer for the kids.
October 10, 2014
Arteta keeps the action speeding along while eliciting spot-on performances. Carell is at his discombobulated best, and Garner anchors the proceedings with aplomb.
October 10, 2014
There are a couple of scenes that fall flat, losing the manic push of the rest of the story, but the mood is so screwball that the film hurtles past its own mistakes. It's good fun.
October 11, 2014
Like the source material, this is one terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day that families just might find themselves revisiting often.
October 10, 2014
This is where the comedy comes from: that lurking fear that even the most routine of daily domestic tasks is just a spilled coffee cup away from disaster.
July 06, 2015
I found it genuinely adorable and entertaining.
February 09, 2015
Alexander... etc. isn't exactly a terrible film, but it was definitely in need of a little retooling so that the events plaguing this family weren't quite so unbelievable, annoying, and on the lower end of the comic scale.
October 08, 2015
The film may be a good way to distract kids for an hour and 20 minutes, but are any of its messages appropriate?
February 26, 2016
And while the problems had are sadly very white and upper class ones, the message is still relevant. It's also rather funny-at times.
January 09, 2015
Alexander is funnier than one would expect. In a weird way, it's full of refreshingly cranky, dorky goofing.
October 10, 2014
It's funny, fast, and charming.
October 10, 2014
"Alexander" won't change your day, but it's not terrible, horrible, no good or very bad, either.
