Release dates
January 8, 2019
77 months agoDVD / VOD
Released
TBA
What They Had release date
The movie What They Had is already released on Cinema, DVD and VOD in the USA. The upcoming Blu-ray release date in the USA is to be announced.
What the critics say
Based on 12 reviews, What They Had gets an average review score of 71
First-time writer-director Elizabeth Chomko avoids mawkishness in a story of how one family copes with a mother’s dementia
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There’s an inherent longing in Elizabeth Chomko’s stunning feature debut, “What They Had.”
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A matriarch’s dementia reunites her family—conflicts and all—in this debut feature by Elizabeth Chomko.
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A-list cast turn story of elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer’s into a touching, poignant story of the ties that bind
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Small but sure, this low-keyed actors’ feast marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Elizabeth Chomko, who grew up in Chicago and the western suburb of Hinsdale, among other stops in a relocation-heavy childhood.
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Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon's What They Had is a hit-and-miss tearjerker
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A mother's escalating dementia spurs a family crisis in playwright Elizabeth Chomko's confident debut feature.
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Michael Shannon is refreshingly ordinary in What They Had, a family drama with focus issues
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Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon as siblings are the best thing about ‘What They Had’
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What They Had gracefully coasts on its patient observations of one family’s dynamics, but once the third act hits, Chomko goes about neatly tidying up seemingly every loose end.
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Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon star as the concerned adult children of a mother sliding into dementia, played by Blythe Danner, in this domestic drama about family, home and memory.
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Programmatic and groaningly trite, What They Had, the debut feature from Elizabeth Chomko, would be impossible to swallow without its star-studded cast. Even so, it requires all their considerable skills to stop this soapy family drama from sliding into complete banality.
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