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In the sequel, Lincoln and Margot break up, neglect Maisie, and Maisie ends up with the step-stepparents
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Divorces can mess up a kid’s life and when a kid is as innocent as Maisie you feel for them even more. The plot revolves around a six-year-old girl Maisie whose parents got separated and now have her joint custody, but her parents are as pieces of shit as one can be they treat her like a trophy they want her but don’t want to take care of her and are always busy in their work, I mean people take care of their fucking dogs more than what they do for Maisie here then comes in Maisie’s parent’s new life partners who are really nice people, Margo who used to be Maisie’s babysitter is now married to her father and…
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For the entire duration of the movie we take Maisie’s (Onata Aprile) fragile little hand and she leads us in her world. It’s not all rainbows and unicorns and pink dresses though; instead indifference, selfishness and arrogance surround her. We follow the 6-year-old daughter of rock singer Susanna (Julianne Moore) and art dealer Beale (Steve Coogan) as she is caught in the middle of her parents’ problems who don’t get along anymore. Moore and Coogan give good performances but given that they’re mostly in the background I was more impressed by Aprile as the innocent daughter being pushed around and neglected. Also Alexander Skarsgård and Joanna Vanderham playing Susanna and Beale’s “other half replacements”, Lincoln and Margo, are of note.…
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conceptually nothing we’ve not seen before (a kid’s perspective of going through a divorce of her parents, with a little extra salt here) but the superb acting makes this standing out. Onata Aprile is carrying every spectator’s heart through the ordeal she has to go through, Moore and Coogan are playing their asshole caretakers exceptionally well. the elliptical structure doesn’t work out perfectly but isn’t supposed to, you often feel as lost as our central character. it all drives towards an inevitable end you can see coming from some miles away but that’s where the unwavering, everlasting, undestroyable American hopefulness has the upper hand. you can live with that, your heart might have already bled out by then anyway.
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She traded her awful parents in for Alexander Skarsgard and Scottish Carey mulligan I love that for her
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Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan are so fantastic in this that they made me genuinely angry
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deeply sad movie about a broken family but also heartwarming in seeing a child find love within a new family. alexander skarsgard is especially sweet in this one too
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my babyyyyyyyyy 🥹☹️🥹☹️🥹☹️
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This is why children go no contact with parents at 18
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EEdie 8 月 2, 2026
I’d like to think that beach house never sold, and Maisie got to kept living her fairytale with Margot and Lincoln forever
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obsessed with alexander skarsgard constantly slouching like a overgrown scolded child
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This little girl was loved and cherished by literally everyone else but her own parents. Infuriating. People, please, THINK about your influence on your own child and take RESPONSIBILITY for your actions and consequences on their mental health. You’re having hard time with your spouse? Well, that’s sad, but NEVER forget your child or manipulate them during your divorce. You’re grown ups, goddamn. Also I want to kiss Alexander Skarsgård badly.
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Rivisto a distanza di circa 7 anni perchè ricordavo fosse interessante ma volevo una rinfrescata. La piccola Maisie si trova sballottata tra due genitori troppo impegnati con i loro affari per poter far sopravvivere l’unione. I due si accasano con dei giovani nuovi amori ma questi si troveranno ad essere l’unica speranza per la piccola… Un film piacevole narrato dal punto di vista della piccola, a sua altezza, che letteralmente buca lo schermo con la sua presenza e i suoi…
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Que filme lindo
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I want every single outfit that Maisie wore!
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alexander skarsgård adopt me
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Def one of the more interesting things Ive watched. But let’s be clear- I was rooting for the step dad and the nanny the whole time.
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lincolnun sonda mutlu olması 5 vermek için yeterli bi sebep
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This is a very trying film. It is a very important film. It tells a very important story of a very important child. Adulthood is trying. But with a child, you enter a certain pact. An unwritten pact that you need to be faithful to for the rest of your life. Marriage is difficult. But when you marry, you also enter a pact. And at the very least, even at moments of extreme difficulty, both personal and otherwise, you should…
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Os pais da Maisie são dois filhos da puta negligenciando uma criança de 7 anos.
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PPlantaBase 7 月 20, 2026
Ultimamente estoy viendo películas que se que pillaría haciendo zapping en la tele el 2012.
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que hot julianne moore metalera. debería ser obligatorio hacer un psicotécnico antes de poder ser padres.
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I’ll think about this a lot for awhile…
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7.8
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“What, are you scared of me?” Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan play neglectful, hate-filled parents a little too well. Yes, I’m scared, and I’m not a 6-year-old kid (whose innocence is captured well by Onata Aprile). Thank God for Lincoln and Margo, played by Alexander Skarsgård and Joanna Vanderham. They step up and care for a child unfairly left to fend for herself. I’m curious to read the Henry James novel this is based on. I’m guessing the film departs…
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Não acho que esse filme é sobre divórcio (como vi muitas pessoas aqui dizerem) e sim negligência e imaturidade adulta. Crianças são meu tudo, como disse Inês Brasil pela criança eu dou minha vida
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Oh Maisie 🙁
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Hi vọng bài viết này sẽ chạm đến nhiều người đang làm cha mẹ. Mình xem phim này trong giai đoạn khủng hoảng hôn nhân của chính mình, truóc khi 2 vợ chồng tạm thời ly thân, mình cùng vợ đã tranh cãi rất nhiều trước mặt con là một bé trai 4 tuổi bằng với độ tuổi của Maisie trong phim. Điều mà phim này diễn tả đúng nhất chính là hình ảnh bé chứng kiến ba mẹ tranh…
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Masie finally got her turtle :,)
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“I won’t cry!” said asma confidently. Little did she know she was going to face the last ten minutes of this movie.
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I absolutely loved this one. Such a beautiful, heartwarming but devastating film that explores a bitter custody battle and divorce from a six-year-old daughter’s point of view. I feel like this story’s one of a kind because as it goes on, it digs deeps into her relationships with her stepparents and I don’t think I’ve ever seen this kind of story before. I loved Lincoln’s and Margo’s character developments and how they proved to be so much better than Maisie’s god-awful, neglecting parents. Anyways, loved it!! Loved the adorable character of Maisie. Definitely recommend this one.
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sedih bgt anjir, she knew TOO much for her age and that’s BAD, happily lincoln and margo take care abt her
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Never let your awful partners stop you from finding your true love (and taking their kid as your own)
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How tf do you even rate this movie
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poor kid… had to experience all that shit at such a young age.
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having to watch your parents’ relationship fall apart when you’re only a kid really messes with you. this was beautiful and very well acted. rocker julianne moore, i need you (this is also caused by my parents’ divorce )
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Poor Maisie:(
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girl dad alexander skarsgard genuinely means so much to me im sobbing and shaking (can you tell i have issues)
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tiring watch (in a good yay they made a nice movie).
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I love love that the camera shows the child’s point of view when the adults are fighting.
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Thought daughter origin
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Just a pure feeling
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La ironia aqui es que la chibola eligio a la trampa de su mama y al pata con la que ella remplazo a su papa ante sus cojudos padres xdddddd 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰 #JulianneMoore
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I like the ending, where her step parents are together
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hancur berkeping keping gw 😭
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No puedo no llorar con la peli
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Pobrecita Maisie, de un lado para otro.
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Should’ve been longer but idk
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since watching this for the first time i couldn’t stop thinking about it, so i’m watching it again. Second watch still hurts just as bad.
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Crazy of to watch a movie about a neglected child and her two step parents at 1 am, but alas
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yeah i want alexander skarsgård as my DADDY too 😕 serious review: at the end of the day, we really need to feel loved by someone. we really need someone. felt too real, i’m crying while maisie crying (finally, my precious baby) :(( her parents really doesn’t deserve her. she’s too sweet, too pure, too mature 🙁 and i’m very happy when she got to say ‘no’ to her mother even when she missed her soo much.
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THIS MOUVE NEEDS WAY MORE HYPE!!! One as a child of divorce myslef I can heavily feel and see myself through Maises character. Plus Alexander skarsgard with Leon Kennedy hair is so sexy but my heart still belongs to bill skarsgard
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Eu adotaria a Maisie, facilmente
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a small body full of unsaid emotions barely surviving
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this was superbly done
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In the end more than anything kids wants to be loved.
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malewife alexander skarsgård
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Los padres más negligentes del mundo: la película
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Some elements could’ve been fleshed out a bit more but solid movie. I wanted to smack both parents so hard.
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All kids deserve parents who actually want them 😭 The actress who plays Maisie carried the movie.
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One to find and appreciate.
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the silent understanding of what’s happening around you even though you’re a young child, I feel like this is a universal experience. Her mother loves her, her father loves her, but that love isn’t enough. Though they try their best, their best isn’t enough. Parents are supposed to nurture their children, something tender and unique, but parents are also humans and humans have needs therefore leaving them no choice but to become selfish for once.
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Pretty bad parents but they did dress their child very chic
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i yearn for lincoln 😔 he’s so kind
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i feel very distant, and luckily so, to most of the concepts presented here about divorce, co-parenting, and the effects it has on a child. however, i thought this was done so delicately and with so much care that it made it easy to tap into how Maisie felt. it almost felt impossible to see how this scenario was even possible. how could, realistically, neither of her birth parents prioritize her? the hardest part was seeing them let her down…
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Ssabrina 6 月 17, 2026
two movies in a sitting. i just couldn’t fall asleep ok. the ending was cute!
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Sort’ve uncomfortably relatable but in a beautiful way divorce, seperation, moving, new people, new situations, loss all of it is very hard and as a kid you don’t even understand how to process it so you just let it wash over, your watching everything I remember the weight of holding onto those things became overwhelming and unbearable once I hit a certain age it’s extremely important to teach people the effects things like that have on children and much more…
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Fuck et mga parents na hindi marunong magpaka magulang !!!
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when you are abandoned from what you thought was your home, you start finding home everywhere else.
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quisiera poder criticar la película por la trama pq realmente es muy buena pero yo solo le preste atención a alexander okei…
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I fucking love this movie
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I hate when separated parents use their child as a pawn. Then once things are all settled they don’t even give a shit anymore. That poor little girl, both her biological parents were shit.. though I will say I was proud of her mom in the end. Margo and Lincoln were meant to be her parents and meant to find each other.
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good step
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Me encantó
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每一步都写着“意外吧！我故意这么编的！”
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I don’t know why, but I keep coming back to *What Maisie Knew*. Every time I watch it, it leaves the same lasting impression. Onata Aprile is nothing short of remarkable. Holding her own alongside seasoned actors like Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, and Alexander Skarsgård is an incredible achievement, but it’s the emotional honesty she brings to Maisie that makes the film so unforgettable. She captures the vulnerability, resilience, and quiet perceptiveness of a child caught in an impossible situation…
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- Synopsis
- In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
- Director
- Scott McGehee, David Siegel
- Writer
- Carroll Cartwright, Nancy Doyne
- Studio
- Red Crown Productions, Weinstock Productions, 10th Hole Productions, KODA Entertainment
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 99 mins
- Canada07 Sep 2012
- USA02 May 2013
- Germany11 Jul 2013
- Finland26 Jul 2013
- Denmark01 Aug 2013
- Ireland23 Aug 2013
- Netherlands31 Oct 2013
- Spain24 Jan 2014
- South Korea27 Mar 2014
- Greece22 May 2014
- Japan23 Oct 2012
- Germany21 Nov 2013
- France24 Jan 2014
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