This is one of the most spell-binding stories I have watched to date. It's real and it's honest and you leave forever changed, realizing that each of us have challenges in our lives that others know nothing about. I'm going to see it again.

The documentary is an attempt, in the words of those behind the film, to “investigate the very nature of family itself.” That this attempt is overreaching and diffuse does not detract from the film’s sporadic power.

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Brisk and deeply engrossing.

Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Solomon’s book Far From the Tree becomes Rachel Dretzin’s upbeat documentary of the same name, a film that celebrates “difference” even as it accepts the heartbreak and agonizing effort it takes for people and society to change attitudes towards those we have historically treated as “abnormal…diseased…retarded” and “broken.”

Roger Moore

Movie Nation