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America's Sweethearts
Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and some crude and sexual humor
Starring
Julia Roberts,
Billy Crystal,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
John Cusack,
and
Hank Azaria
For an awkward, self-conscious girl like Kiki (Roberts), being the personal assistant to a beautiful mega-star like Gwen (Zeta-Jones) isn't easy. But when she dutifully accepts the task of helping Gwen and her estranged mega-star husband Eddie (Cusack) make it through one last public appearance masterminded by legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Crystal), forever devoted Kiki finds that her job is about to get even harder. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Billy Crystal
Peter Tolan
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Joe Roth
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 13, 2001
Video: November 13, 2001
Theatrical: July 20, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
109 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Turns the kleig lights around to produce a wry and dead-on commentary on the film industry and the journalists who cover it.
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Terrifically funny romantic comedy, is a slam-dunk for Julia Roberts, the Michael Jordan of cuteness.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The result is a back-lot studio tour that's not exactly good-natured, but terrific fun and it gives the ensemble cast plenty of clowning opportunities.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Surprisingly funny and sweet, despite some missed comic opportunities and curious casting choices.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
At its heart the film wants nothing more than to make you giggle, and at that it succeeds admirably.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Though an uneven, often confused, mixed bag -- the movie gradually comes together to be a fairly hilarious inside-Hollywood farce.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
You keep waiting for it to go into orbit, to be really fizzy and outrageous, like the screwball farce it wants to be. Instead, the film settles for the merely serviceable.

63
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
This movie is a cookie. A slightly stale generic-brand cookie.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Christopher Walken has the best moments in the whole thing, portraying the wacked-out auteur of the Gwen-and-Eddie vehicle. Sadly, he's only in America's Sweethearts a few hilarious minutes.
63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
For the farce it so desperately wants to be, the film often feels slack and too reliant on so-so punch lines for laughs.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
All these good actors and all Crystal's sass and witty candor can't bring back the heyday of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. Or even, most of the time, their off-days.

60
Wall Street Journal
Ed Epstein
Amusing enough, especially with its uniquely credible premise of a media fraud, to recommend.
60
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
As enjoyable as this film is in parts, it's not nearly as successful as a whole. Enormously engaging in its opening segments, it's unable to sustain that good feeling over the long haul.

58
Portland Oregonian
Barry Johnson
Surprise! Crystal has given himself most of the best lines, though he also allows a Doberman to have its way with him.

50
Newsweek
David Ansen
Resoundingly so-so.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
While the film delivers some sharp dialogue, overall it's soft and slightly unfocused.

50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Too eager to please to be truly dislikable, and Roberts and Cusack have a fine rapport.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
The movie is a polished muddle, fitfully amusing but with no spine.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
America's Sweethearts recycles "Singin' in the Rain" but lacks the sassy genius of that 1952 musical, which is still the best comedy ever made about Hollywood.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
No excuse for the bitterness and crudity in America's Sweethearts -- a noxious combination that erodes the 1930s and '40s screwball-comedy armature on which this mirthless movie is based.

40
Variety
Robert Koehler
Begins as a smartly promising, gently farcical comedy of manners and ends as sourly and haphazardly as the lives it is poking fun at.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
It's dull, two-dimensional, and totally toothless.
40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Like a bottle of lukewarm Champagne -- an expensive one, judging by the label -- America's Sweethearts opens with a promising burst of effervescence and quickly goes flat.

30
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
It's mostly terrible. The movie has no sparkle, no charm, nothing to sweep us off our feet.

30
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A lackluster screwball comedy.

30
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Chockablock with things we're not supposed to notice: that Roberts is wasted; that she and Cusack have no characters to play, so it's virtually impossible to understand why she loves him or vice versa; that the script provides comedy without bite and romance without resonance.

30
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The sparks don't fly -- they fall down and they can't get up.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Falls flat on screen, weighed down by far-fetched plot twists.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
This is the downside of Roberts' giant success and her dazzling ability to charm: Every time she goes plain, as she did in the little-seen "Mary Reilly" and "Michael Collins," our princess simply fizzles.

20
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal.

20
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
Obnoxious, transparent cornball comedy.

20
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Overwritten by Billy Crystal and Peter Tolan, overdirected by Joe Roth, overplayed by most of the cast, yet typically undernourished.


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