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- The limits of America’s celebrity-focused culture are sorely tested in Austin Found, a social satire that unnervingly raises the stakes for achieving fleeting media fame. Will Raee’s feature wrings a few laughs from a strained premise, but remains far better suited to short-attention span formats than theatrical play.
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Jul 7, 2017 · "Austin Found" is an exercise in deja vu. The story—an ambitious stage-mom goes to criminal lengths to get publicity for her beauty pageant contestant daughter—takes place on too-familiar ground.
A bumpy ride to Coen country, the kidnapping caper Austin Found squanders a dialed-in Linda Cardellini performance on a barren premise. Full Review | Jul 6, 2017 Michael Phillips Chicago...
Jul 6, 2017 · An Atlanta teenager (Amandla Stenberg) deals with the death of her friend in "The Hate U Give," director George Tillman Jr.'s fine adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel. Read the...
Jul 7, 2017 · Funny and disturbing in the best way, the comedy-drama Austin Found captures something beyond its story of a woman’s obsession with making her little daughter a beauty pageant winner.
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Will Raée. Synopsis. A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities, but not everything goes as planned as her wild tempered ex-boyfriend...
Jul 7, 2017 · Austin Found: Directed by Will Raée. With Linda Cardellini, Skeet Ulrich, Craig Robinson, Kristen Schaal. A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities, but not everything goes as planned as her wild tempered ex-boyfriend starts to lose it.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 21% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a positive review, calling the film "Funny and Disturbing." Jeffrey M. Anderson of Common Sense Media gave the film two stars out of five.
