Being Flynn (movie)

Movie review: 'Admission' gets a passing grade

2013-03-22 00:00:00

A fraught romantic comedy shot through with anxiety about getting your child into an Ivy League school or else, "Admission" stars Tina Fey as a Princeton University admissions officer with a secret. Her genial foil is Paul Rudd, who runs a rural New...

'Oz' poised to find box-office gold. Horn has cool hand at Disney.

2013-03-08 08:26:00

After the coffee. Before deciding if I'll see 'Oz' this weekend. The Skinny: After seeing "Being Flynn" on HBO last night, I've decided that "Silver Linings Playbook" was over-hyped. Friday's headlines include a preview of the weekend box office, a look...

Nick Flynn, on the set of his life story

2013-01-18 13:35:00

Nick Flynn is probably the only living poet who watched his life made into a movie last year. He's most certainly the only one who saw Robert De Niro play his father — and without a doubt the only one whose father shrugged De Niro off, unimpressed....

Writer Nick Flynn on 'Being Flynn'

2012-03-01 16:35:28

Nick Flynn's search for lost time

2013-03-11 19:04:00

In Nick Flynn’s new book, “The Reenactments,” the memoirist and poet delivers a meditation on the peculiar experience of watching his life story become a movie. Starring Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore and Paul Dano, the Paul Weitz-...

'Being Flynn'

2012-06-08 12:04:42

A writer (Paul Dano) working in a homeless shelter has a very surprising reunion with his father (Robert De Niro), whose con-artist tendencies make him not the most reliable shoulder to lean on, in this comedy-drama from director and screenwriter Paul...

'Being Flynn' review: A chip off the old, miserable block

2012-03-08 00:00:00

**1/2 (out of four) I’m not faulting Paul Dano for being one of the less (to put it nicely) screen-friendly presences in Hollywood. I am faulting “Being Flynn” for shoving Denise (Olivia Thirlby, excellent), a cute and extremely...

Movie Coming Soon

2012-02-24 03:45:00

Given the scene-skipping poetry of this movie's unprintably titled source material (a beautifully tragic memoir by writer Nick Flynn), there was reason to be skeptical of its journey to the big screen.

2012-12-12 16:23:56

R; 1:42 running time It's not easy "Being Flynn." Not for Jonathan Flynn, the absentee alcoholic father played by Robert De Niro, nor the restless 20-something son Nick, played by Paul Dano, the estranged pair at the heart of this darkly tangled family drama in which resolution is hard to come by

2012-03-08 09:01:00

Paul Dano and Robert De Niro star in "Being Flynn."

2012-03-08 08:26:25