You won't be disappointed!

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This film tells the story of a 7 year old girl, who witnesses her parents' divorce, custody battle and subsequent build-ups and break downs of relationships."What Maisie Knew" is very interesting because it is told from a child's perspective. It follows that the girl sees and hears, and we see her world through her play and her conversations to other adults. Though the plot is rather grim, the filmmakers manage to portray the events without being overly dramatic. This makes it surprisingly easy and pleasant to watch. It pains me to see Maisie being thrown like a ball from one adult to another, yet Maisie is still holding up without showing negativity. It shows that Maisie's world is untainted and innocent. It almost feels like there is a glimmer of hope and love through the child's eyes, despite being entangled in the messed up adult world.

I saw What Maisie Knew months ago in the theater, and yet I keep thinking about it. They got to the heart of the material. The casting and emotional tenor is perfect. I keep thinking about the characters as if I knew them. This is a haunting movie of the break up of a family and the resilience of a child. I highly recommend it. Having had a mother a bit like the Julianne Moore character, I was profoundly moved by the caustic effects of a selfish parent. She was wonderful. To think it was adapted from a Henry James story is interesting, that there could be parents so self centered one hundred years back. Sad, yet Maise finds what she needs and holds the moral center of the movie. The settings were poignant and poetic. Somehow the entire production gets to the heart of the heartbreak of a child.

"What Maisie Knew" is a very touching dramatic film from 2012. It is currently available on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. The directors are Scott McGehee and David Siegel. The screenplay is by Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright.The mother might be seen as the main actor here, Julianne Moore, and this is the best I've ever seen her, I think. She gives a slightly fiery performance, and "slightly" is perfect, avoiding an overacting job suggested by her role as a slightly successful rock and roll star. She's terrifically awful and you come to hate her, appropriately. The father (Steve Coogan) also puts in a sharp performance playing the lively, fun parent who is a selfish womanizer, hiding, sometimes, his flaws from his daughter. His relationship with the mother is not detailed very far because it is mostly one of distance and disdain. And mutual abuse. The real star here is the girl, an utterly charming and beautifully effective actress, Onata, Aprile. She succeeds not by her delivery of great lines, but by her expressions. It's all because Henry James understood something delicate about children in these situations: they know what's going on and don't say it. And they also don't let it affect them because they simply can't afford to, or because they become hardened in some little ways, making them withdraw or act out. That Maisie maintains a delicious sweetness without playing the victim is quite remarkable, and Aprile is brilliant. Dale Haufrect

This little girl's life is a roller-coaster of joy and letdown by selfish and immature parents who are only peripherally aware of their daughter's existence. Six year old Maisie's life at the hands of her parents made me so angry. These truly are people who do not deserve children. This film is fantastically well acted, and portrays the subject matter so impressively that it should be used in parenting classes to show adults the effect their behaviour can have on their children. Steve Coogan is convincingly unsympathetic as a lazy slime of a father, and Julianne Moore is completely believable as the self-obsessed, treat-the-child-as-an-accessory mother. Contrastingly, Onata Aprile's Maisie is an absolute joy!