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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.95 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2001 DVD Release : 30 October, 2001 |
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America's Sweethearts description America's Sweethearts is just the kind of romantic froth that makes for pleasant viewing on a lazy, rainy day. While Julia Roberts, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones offer high-wattage marquee value, costar and cowriter Billy Crystal reworks Singin' in the Rain for latter-day Hollywood, where estranged superstars Gwen (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (Cusack) reluctantly promote their latest movie by pretending their messily disputed relationship is still going strong. The studio chief (Stanley Tucci) is desperate for a hit, so he hires a seasoned publicist (Crystal) to orchestrate a press junket that will cast everyone in a profitable light. The catch: The director (Christopher Walken) has abducted his own film in an act of artistic extortion, and Gwen's sister and longtime assistant Kiki (Roberts) is the true object of Eddie's desire. Chaos ensues at the luxury hotel where the junket is scheduled, and America's Sweethearts pokes easy fun at the cynical machinery that keeps Hollywood running. Quotable quips are delivered in abundance, and while Zeta-Jones is readily convincing as a bitchy narcissist, Roberts effortlessly steals the show with her trademark charms. All of which makes America's Sweethearts lightly entertaining, even though it never rises (like Roberts's earlier Notting Hill) to the level of classic romantic comedy, hampered by a script that too often substitutes easy laughs for ripe satirical invention, flashing a phony grin when it should be baring its fangs. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Excellent script, good acting |
| I remind anyone reading my reviews that I rate movies according to their genre, so a movie that might not deserve any awards might still get five stars from me. That said, this is a romantic comedy, a genre I don't care too much about. But this movie appeals to me. Everyone is on game. Julia Roberts plays a sly role a little off her normal beat that I enjoyed very much--I don't automatically like Julia Roberts characters. Billy Crystal plays, well, a pretty good Billy Crystal and no surprizes from Catherine Zeta-Jones or John Cusack who turn in excellent performances. Frank Azaria, that woefully underrated talent, does a humorously over-the-top version of a Latin lover. Christopher Walken plays against type as an artsy Hollywood director and brings additional comedy to already humorous movie.
A good evenings entertainment--what more can you expect from a Romantic Comedy anyway?? (OK ladies, shoot me.) |
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