Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.
On Our Own has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of On Our Own (1998)
By Liz M (293) on 21 Jun 2008
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On Our Own was released in 1998 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 11 reviews, giving On Our Own (1998) an average rating of 66%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed On Our Own a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 66%, On Our Own is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1998, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1998 with similar scores include films like The Faculty, Antz and A Civil Action.
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