Movie Info
Genre :
Drama, Comedy, RomanceRelease Date :
October 14, 2005MPAA Rating :
PG-13Director :
Cameron CroweStarring :
Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel, Jed Rees, Allison Munn, Gailard Sartain
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers 
[Rate It]
“..worth seeing...”
by Ray Bennett [The Hollywood Reporter]
“..with some trimming, it just might be great...”
by Liam Cullin [Empire Movies]
“..the sum of the parts are far greater than the whole..”
by Eric Lurio [Greenwich Village Gazette]
“..not nearly as charming, funny or endearing as it thinks it is...”
by James Verniere [Boston Herald]
“..lacks focus, jumping from scene to scene with no apparent rhyme or reason, making it longer than necessary...”
by Heather Wood [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland]
“..hits one clunky false note after another...”
by Jim Lane [Sacramento News & Review]
“..Full of flaws and ambiguity, it's a mess..”
by Brian Marder [Hollywood]
“..feels disjointed and poorly focused..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
“..doesn't make a whole lot of sense..”
by Shlomo Schwartzberg [Boxoffice Magazine]
“..Crowe uncharacteristically loses the focus of his film, and loses control...”
by Daniel Neman [Richmond Times-Dispatch]
“..Crowe fails to make the central romance persuasive..”
by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
“..an ungainly oddity that doesn't wear well...”
by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News]
“..an irresistibly comfy experience..”
by Brian Orndorf [EFilmCritic]
“..an interesting failure that will probably be forgotten quickly..”
by Jeff Vice [Deseret News, Salt Lake City]
“..a wonderfully human and entertaining piece of drama...”
by Joshua Starnes [Comingsoon]
“..a sweet, funny, sprawling movie..”
by Michael Wilmington [Chicago Tribune]
“..a fiasco, a disappointment, a film with so little to love...”
by Mark Plante [The Cinema Source]
“..a complete disaster..”
by Pam Grady [Reel]
Reader's Reviews
i hate orlando bloom.
posted by rdog on Oct 16, 2009