Reception[SIZE=small][edit][/SIZE]Critical reaction to Tiptoes was negative. Based on 7 reviews, the film carries a "rotten" rating of 29% at aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[2] Bill Gibron of PopMatters called the film "insensitive", adding: "Clearly crafted as a wake-up call to all the nasty 'normals' out there, it substitutes schmaltz for sincerity to create a heated hate crime all its own."[3]Variety reviewer Lisa Nesselson described the film as "an honorable failure" that "comes up short in many departments", despite its "bracingly peculiar premise and astonishingly fine [performance] from Gary Oldman".[4] Oldman's turn was included in BBC critic Mark Kermode's "Great Acting in Bad Films" in 2012.[5]
Production[SIZE=small][edit][/SIZE]According to Peter Dinklage, the original cut of the film was "gorgeous", but the director was fired shortly after turning it in, and the people who fired him recut the film into a "rom-com with dwarves".[6]
Story about a girl who falls in love with a guy whose relatives are all munchkins.Can someone describe it for me so I don't have to look at it? TIA.
TIPTOES is a film that attempts to deal with the largely unexplored subject of dwarfism, but quickly becomes convoluted and saccharine. The story is centered around Steven (Matthew McConaughey) who has been told by his fiancée Carol (Kate Beckinsale), that she is pregnant. What he has not told her, is that his twin brother, as well as his whole family are dwarfs, and that their child will more than likely be a "little person."
The entire plot is built around the premise that their child might have dwarfism. Sounds hilarious.TIPTOES is a film that attempts to deal with the largely unexplored subject of dwarfism, but quickly becomes convoluted and saccharine. The story is centered around Steven (Matthew McConaughey) who has been told by his fiancée Carol (Kate Beckinsale), that she is pregnant. What he has not told her, is that his twin brother, as well as his whole family are dwarfs, and that their child will more than likely be a "little person."
Looks like they played this one off the cuff.The entire plot is built around the premise that their child might have dwarfism. Sounds hilarious.Ironically it would be virtually impossible for two non-dwarfs to have a child with dwarfism, unless BOTH of their families carried the gene. I wonder if the producers even bothered to research that fact.TIPTOES is a film that attempts to deal with the largely unexplored subject of dwarfism, but quickly becomes convoluted and saccharine. The story is centered around Steven (Matthew McConaughey) who has been told by his fiancée Carol (Kate Beckinsale), that she is pregnant. What he has not told her, is that his twin brother, as well as his whole family are dwarfs, and that their child will more than likely be a "little person."
This is just part of the long con. No way Oldman played a dwarf in a real movie.