The Park Bench

2014

Comedy / Romance

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 421 421

Director

Top cast

Walter Perez as Mateo
John Prosky as Professor McIntyre
Stella Maeve as Maribel
Araceli Cesar as Mother

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ritera1 7 / 10

Amusing

Reviewed by gregportergo 10 / 10

Surprised me!

This film seems so unassuming but it really packs a punch. It did for me anyway. The characters felt like they really existed and I ended up getting really invested in their lives. It's small, for sure, but it's very lovely. One reason I think it works so well is because the actors have terrific chemistry. They play off each other well and the way they slowly confide in each other seems completely plausible. I just wanted to see what would happen the next day they met, and the next...I also loved the animation - so colorful and fun. It added another dimension to the whole film. I wish there were more movies like this that told simple but engaging stories with characters I wanted to follow. It just made me feel good.I hope more people will discover this movie.
Reviewed by edwardmbrown 7 / 10

Sweet, but thought provoking.

This is a sweet movie about a budding romance between a tutor and her student. They sit on a park bench and the film jumps from one meeting to the next with animated titles between them. It is cute, and one reviewer said that it didn't rise above that. I found myself, however, musing over what I thought was the film's question, "How do you know love when you find it." I don't often muse about romcoms after I see them, so I would say it was more than just cute.
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