Acasa, My Home (2020)
90%RT Audience Score:
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 2 Oscars
11 wins & 6 nominations total
Acasa, My Home presents a powerful documentary portrait of one family’s odyssey that illustrates bittersweet truths about freedom and society.
Acasa, My Home is a documentary that will make you laugh, cry, and question the definition of progress. It follows the Enache family as they are forced to leave their idyllic life in the Bucharest Delta and move to the city. The film is beautifully shot and the family’s story is told with empathy and nuance. You’ll find yourself rooting for them as they navigate the challenges of urban life, but also questioning the cost of progress and who gets left behind. Plus, there’s a surprise appearance by Prince Charles that you won’t want to miss!
Production Company(ies)
The Mirisch Corporation,
Distributor
Zeitgeist Films
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
671 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois, USA
MPAA / Certificate
PG
Year of Release
1990
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 26m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:Finland, Germany, Romania
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jan 15, 2021 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 15, 2021
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
Acasa, My Home, documentary, Romanian, family, freedom, society, Radu Ciorniciuc, directed by, Erkko Lyytinen, produced by, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Alina David, Hanka Kastelicová, executive producer, box office performance, budget, reviewed by, Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair, Andrew Pulver, Guardian, Selome Hailu, Austin Chronicle, Peter Rainer, FilmWeek, Claudia Puig, Los Angeles Times, Robert Abele, Battle Royale With Cheese, Kathy Fennessy, Video Librarian Magazine, Sarah Boslaugh, TheArtsStl, Ron Wilkinson, It’s Just Movies, Jack Hawkins, HeyUGuys, MPAA rating, Zeitgeist Films, starring, none
Worldwide gross: $476,684,675
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,098,943,781
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 84
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 119,841,198
US/Canada gross: $285,761,243
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $658,790,931
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 43
US/Canada opening weekend: $17,081,997
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $39,380,654
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 320
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $18,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $41,497,009
Production budget ranking: 926
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $22,346,139
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $1,035,100,633
ROI to date (est.): 1,621%
ROI ranking: 62
Erkko Lyytinen – Producer
Monica Lazurean-Gorgan – Producer
Alina David – Producer
Hanka Kastelicová – Executive Producer
Radu Ciorniciuc – Executive Producer
Director(s)
Radu Ciorniciuc
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
Erkko Lyytinen, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Alina David
Film Festivals
Sundance
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
11 wins & 6 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (40) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (40)
Acasa, My Home is an essential document of a nation ever in flux, and of what individual lives are disrupted and cast aside in the churn of progress.
December 3, 2021
Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair
TOP CRITIC
Ciorniciuc and his co-writer Lina Vdovîi, in allowing events to unfold slowly in front of the camera, have created a beautifully measured portrait of an amazingly resonant topic.
June 22, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Andrew Pulver
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
Rică, like Acasă, My Home itself, meditates on how we define a life worth choosing.
January 22, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Selome Hailu
Austin Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
It’s a remarkable piece of documentary access.
January 16, 2021
Peter Rainer
FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
TOP CRITIC
It’s a very empathetic portrait, but it also shows the complexity of this family… I think it’s most poignant when it focuses on the children.
January 16, 2021
Claudia Puig
FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
TOP CRITIC
Needless to say, the point of Ciorniciuc’s immersive, lively, warm and heartbreaking film is not to see the Enaches in the park as total paradise and their stab at urban living as some terrible detour into restrictiveness.
January 16, 2021
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
This is observational filmmaking at its finest, so proximate to these people and their story that for moments I forgot I was watching a documentary…
December 3, 2021
Ryan Lambert
Battle Royale With Cheese
Most of this unfolds so cinematically it’s easy to forget you’re watching a documentary until Prince Charles, a conservation proponent, shows up to attend the park’s groundbreaking.
July 7, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
Kathy Fennessy
Video Librarian Magazine
Acasa, My Home is a film that shows far more than it tells, but since Ciorniciuc shoots it from the perspective of the Enache family, it’s natural for the viewer to take their side.
April 7, 2021 | Rating: 7/10
Sarah Boslaugh
TheArtsStl
Strong camera work follows a family from paradise to the promise, as yet unfulfilled, of urban upward mobility.
February 8, 2021 | Rating: 8/10
Ron Wilkinson
It’s Just Movies
Ciorniciuc extractsa seamless narrative with his compelling cinema verite style, yet he fails to fully explore the toxic patriarch at the story’s heart.
January 26, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
Jack Hawkins
HeyUGuys
At only 86 minutes, Ciorniciuc and editor Andrei Gorgan rarely allow their story to lag, although it’s lack of any big climaxes mean broader appeal like that attained by Collective is harder to figure.
January 25, 2021
Glenn Dunks
The Film Experience…
Plot
It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz (Devin Ratray) and was sent to his room, which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the family was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin, who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents’ bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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