Please Stand By
On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy, played with exquisite delicacy by Dakota Fanning, follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on her journey into the unknown. 'It is there for us to conquer, not to fear.'
28 April 1996, Anaheim, California, USA
7 February 1999, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
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4 June 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
7 August 1951, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
28 October 1982, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 June 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 January 1969, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
21 February 1958, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
1 November 1972, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 August 1957, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
7 July 1969, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
9 February 1983, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
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 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 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
A sensitive character study whose story beats are a little bit overly familiar.
January 27, 2018
It's quirky but never cloying; creative but never over-the-top; and funny without sacrificing drama.
January 25, 2018
Lewin ... posits this as a whimsical road comedy, but I couldn't help questioning both the logic and the consistency.
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
"Please Stand By" will win no awards. But it is a sweet diversion.
January 26, 2018
Touches the viewer with the subtle emotional wallop of a feather brushing against the heart.
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 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.
