The Ref
The film tells a story of unlucky burglar who experiences a bad circumstance when he takes a couple and their annoying relatives hostage. What will he do to deal with problems for survival?
13 October 1942, Riga, Latvia
2 June 1977, Wisconsin, USA
10 November 1949, Evanston, Illinois, USA
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
24 October 1960, San Francisco, California, USA
9 September 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
2 May 1952, Buffalo, New York, USA
13 August 1961, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
26 February 1922, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
18 November 1944, Suffolk County, New York, USA
29 July 1978, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
26 February 1958, New York City, New York, USA
28 June 1937, Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 October 1923, Pretoria, South Africa
December 06, 2013
The Ref is a powerfully funny adult comedy. It skewers marriage, suburban values and the trendy belief that everyone is a victim of something.
December 06, 2013
The trouble with The Ref is that it keeps running out of steam, so it seems to develop a new plot wrinkle every seven minutes. Typically, it'll run through the new idea until it runs out of steam again, then invents yet another one.
December 06, 2013
While director Ted Demme seems to be trying to impose a Home Alone tone, he only succeeds in lending an air of desperation, with lame subplots blundering into the picture.
December 29, 2013
A genuinely hysterical anti-holiday comedy.
December 06, 2013
Whether it's a function of sloppy editing or sloppy writing, few of these supporting players and their accompanying subplots pay off.
January 04, 2017
It's not just a Denis Leary vehicle. It's a real movie, with drama and grace and intelligence (and slapstick and drunk Santa gags and crude laughs).
September 07, 2011
A foulmouthed sitcom of a film.
December 06, 2013
The Ref benefits from having actor's actors like Davis and Spacey in the leads.
December 06, 2013
This is a funny idea, but the movie is too thinly written to build any real credibility, and the cast rarely seems in tune with the vapid vulgarities that dominate the dialogue.
December 06, 2013
It's not a bad idea, but it's not a good movie, either.
March 26, 2009
The Ref works virtually none of the miracles of [Richard LaGravenese's screenplay for The Fisher King,] his previous mix 'n' match effort.
December 06, 2013
It's miraculous casting, and the Australian Davis -- for my money the finest actress around, bar none -- is simply uncanny in her command of East Coast gentility combined with razor-sharp timing and comedic expression.
