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A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
EMAILPRINTSPECIAL: HBO, Sunday 1/31 at 7:00p (40 minutes)
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 6 critic reviews
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Based on 2 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Created By: Rosie OâDonnell
First Air Date: January 31, 2010
Summary
The HBO special produced by Rosie O'Donnell features songs and stories about different kinds of family units.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site
What The Critics Said
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USA TodayRobert Bianco
The stories are universally well chosen and well presented, a collection of adorable children and loving parents.
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
You may not leave this special loving Rosie's position on gay marriage. It's impossible not to come away loving the stars.
Read Full Review >Entertainment WeeklyTanner Stransky
In this syrupy-sweet documentary, O' Donnell celebrates the many different types of families.
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Ultimately, A Family Is a Family Is a Family is probably intended to preach to the choir. It's a reassuring little program that shows children in both conventional and nontraditional families that there are others like them.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
O'Donnell's Celebration is a puzzling mix of interviews, musical numbers and animation.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesNeil Genzlinger
The 40-minute special, Sunday on HBO, consists of a parade of young children making cute, often inaccurate remarks about things like what “family” means, with an occasional song thrown in to break up the cloying monotony.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Will FromSF gave it a2:
Cloying, transparently politically correct to the extreme, it's repetitious such that it spirals down into boredom quickly. The kids are adorable but apparently highly manipulated and cherry-picked to say the loving thing. At least at one point I could see that the kid was reading something off-video and the dialog seemed rather adult at times for 4-year-olds. In Rosie's world life is happy all the time - except she and her mate couldn't make it work like most of the mommy-daddy combo relationships.
