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Please Stand By
A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a 'Star Trek' writing competition.
4 June 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
26 May 1987, Yolo, California, USA
10 September 1994, Anaheim, California, USA
9 February 1983, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
16 August 1957, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
January 25, 2018
Please Stand By deflates into a perfectly watchable but soft parable in which a can-do young American loses a battle, only to win the war of growing up, while the adults in the room confront their own unhelpful rigidities.
January 26, 2018
A sensitive character study whose story beats are a little bit overly familiar.
January 24, 2018
Road movies are pretty common but "Please Stand By" makes the genre its own as we root for Wendy ever y step of her way.
January 25, 2018
"Please Stand By" will win no awards. But it is a sweet diversion.
January 26, 2018
Yes, it's too cute by several parsecs, but it does boast Patton Oswalt playing a Klingon-speaking police officer.
January 26, 2018
You can guess how most of its scenes will play before you even come to them, and it has a circumspect, sanitized quality, as if meant to be shown in group homes without causing undue upset.
January 25, 2018
A lovely, gentle geek adventure that appreciates the importance of fandom as a source of inspiration and comfort, with a subtle and resolutely unsentimental performance by Dakota Fanning as an autistic fan.
January 26, 2018
Touches the viewer with the subtle emotional wallop of a feather brushing against the heart.
January 25, 2018
Lewin ... posits this as a whimsical road comedy, but I couldn't help questioning both the logic and the consistency.
January 28, 2018
Lewin can't quite transcend the inconsistencies and dwindling credibility of the concept or give the material a driving pulse, even with its race-to-the-deadline setup.
January 27, 2018
It's quirky but never cloying; creative but never over-the-top; and funny without sacrificing drama.