The story of Reggie, a 12 year old rich prodigy who lives in a castle in Manhattan, surrounded by wealth but living a lonely life as his parents are frequently absent. Eleanor is a young musician going through the pains of growing up, who is estranged from family, having slacker boyfriend troubles, and fired from her waitressing job. Fate winds her lovely fingers around these two lives to unexpectedly place the inexperienced Eleanor as the new au pair for a skeptical Reggie and the music in their hearts and souls intertwines to create this beautiful story about discovery and acceptance.
27 March 1989, Seattle, Washington, USA
28 May 1980, Springfield, New York, USA
11 May 1977, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
15 July 1987, Napa, California, USA
17 July 1964, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
November 12, 2015
The same listless scenes play over and over (park, restaurant, cello, etc.), with odd editing lurches between them.
March 19, 2015
Whaley nicely calibrates this wistful dramedy's emotional quotient, never allowing sentiment to turn into sap. He also smartly dials down Reggie's initial precociousness to reveal a kid who's deep, resourceful and strangely sensible.
March 12, 2015
It's a bittersweet story that thins out toward the end as it turns too obviously sentimental, but it's still a nicely etched tale of the intersection of two unrelated lives.
March 27, 2015
Whaley has made a provocative, well-acted movie about infatuations that turn awkward, but he struggles with the ending.
March 10, 2015
Unsurprising given its laughably affected title, Like Sunday, Like Rain boasts what may be the most insufferably precocious protagonist in cinema history.
March 12, 2015
If only Whaley...possessed any singularity of vision, perhaps this rote film would have had a similarly lasting effect.
March 12, 2015
Perhaps the best picture Whaley has made to date, able to find purpose and meaning in this friendship, disrupting a formulaic structure with an earnest appreciation of personality.
April 04, 2015
Gossip Girl royalty Meester does opposite side of the tracks raw and real here, when it comes to emotional domestic violence, economic class divisions and youth financial struggles today. But the incessant background music is this film's own worst enemy.
May 14, 2015
A tender and heartfelt drama about the friendship between a 20-something nanny and her brainy 12-year-old charge.
March 11, 2015
Like Sunday, Like Rain is so out of tune that even late-breaking attempts at emotion can't strike a chord.
March 26, 2015
Whaley aims high for this sort of material, but his film, sweet as it is, gets a little too precocious.
March 03, 2015
A playful tone and passable performances can't overcome an unremarkable premise and predictable plotting.
