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Cowboy del Amor
Emerging Pictures

Cowboy del Amor reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 57 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.6 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Ivan Thompson

Cowboy Del Amor is a documentary comedy about a cowboy-turned-matchmaker who can’t manage his own love life. It follows self-proclaimed "Cowboy Cupid" Ivan Thompson, as he finds Mexican brides for disillusioned American men searching for the perfect wife. (Emerging Pictures)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Documentary  
DIRECTED BY: Michèle Ohayon  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: January 23, 2007 
Theatrical: February 3, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 
LANGUAGE(S): English / Spanish 

What The Critics Said

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78
Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
The result is a lyrical contrast of two contiguous cultures, worlds apart in their definitions of family and love but brought together by mutual awe and basic human need.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Fascinating and distinctly politically incorrect.
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70
Dallas Observer Melissa Levine
Watching Cowboy del Amor is like sitting in a room with someone who's making funny racist cracks; you can't help but laugh, but you feel sullied by the implicit collusion. For that reason, the film tips over into the camp of tragedy. Or if it is a comedy, it's the Shakespearean kind, where the marriages at the end are utterly unsettling.
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70
Variety Joe Leydon
Richly amusing and sporadically insightful as it offers an up-close-and-personal view of Ivan Thompson, a self-proclaimed "cowboy cupid" who plays matchmaker between American men and Mexican women.
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70
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Charming, bittersweet.
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63
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's both a compliment and a criticism to say that Michèle Ohayon's scrappy documentary ends much too quickly. Every moment of this story - about America's unlikeliest matchmaker - is fascinating. We just need more of them.
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60
Village Voice Jorge Morales
A 60-year-old eccentric with a knack for self-promotion, Thompson makes an engaging documentary subject. But his plainspoken charm and cornpone shtick can't dispel the film's lingering aftertaste of exploitative condescension.
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60
Film Threat Eric Campos
A well-done, oft-times entertaining documentary as it presents this unique brand of matchmaking that may or may not be the ideal situation for both parties.
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50
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Directed by Michèle Ohayon with a light touch and an attentive ear for the regressive attitudes beneath the humor, Cowboy del Amor follows the fortunes of Rick, an easygoing truck driver who thinks most American women are "too hard to please."
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50
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Michèle Ohayon falls into the old documentary trap - the illusion that once you've found yourself a lovable eccentric to follow around with a camera, you automatically have a movie.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
The film doesn't quite manage to sustain interest for the duration of its 86-minute running time. But it does exert a certain voyeuristic fascination, thanks in no small part to the eccentricities of its central figure.
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25
New York Post V.A. Musetto
Ohayon doesn't judge Thompson or his customers, but you don't need to be a Harvard-educated psychiatrist to realize that the bunch of them are dirty old men who treat women as commodities.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Tim D. gave it a9:
The critics have read way too much into this man. This movie will at times make you wish that you could have been there to gain more insight and to see Mr. Thompson behind the scenes. I do not belive that he was strickly seeing women as commodities, he is just pragmatic. Find 2 marriage minded people and introduce them to each other in a matter of a few days. (and of course charge the fee) Mr Thompson must be sincere, since he is willing to take a 22+ hour trip with his customers in the process.

Ruby G. gave it a10:
This was a very touching film- one of my current favorites!! Hilarious, with a lot of emotion!

Julian T. gave it a10:
One of the best docs I've seen.

Aaron Z. gave it a10:
Entertaining, heartwarming, provocative, must see

Christy O. gave it a10:
An excellent movie! Enjoy watching this documentary comedy at the movie theater.

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