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Dedication
The Weinstein Company
MPAA RATING: R for language and some sexual content
Starring
Bob Balaban,
Amy Sedaris,
Billy Crudup,
Bobby Cannavale,
Peter Bogdanovich,
Charlene Biton,
Martin Freeman,
and
Mandy Moore
Dedication is a modern love story in which the misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book series is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that maybe all it takes is a little dedication to find love. (The Weinstein Company)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
David Bromberg
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Justin Theroux
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: August 24, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
111 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...
80
Chicago Reader
Joshua Katzman
Actor Justin Theroux makes an impressive directorial debut, aided by David Bromberg's mordantly funny dialogue.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A pleasingly weird, dryly funny little indie.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Dedication works anyway, thanks to Theroux's jumping visuals and Crudup's jumpy performance.

70
Film Threat
Zack Haddad
This is a decent flick, it is just I have seen this a few times before.

67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Crudup delivers a bracing, uncompromising performance, but it's unmistakably a solo turn in a romantic comedy that's supposed to be about the blurring of egos and the fusing of two idiosyncratic voices into a single harmonious duet.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Gianni Truzzi
To director Justin Theroux's credit, he differentiates his film with a dusky visual style that reflects Henry's murky interior. He uses the grit of his Manhattan locations to give outward expression to Henry's volatile, selfish and terrified state of mind.

67
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Dedication would've been better if it had stuck to its disreputable guns instead of going all mushy and predictable, and slathering an emo soundtrack over everything.

60
Slate
Dana Stevens
Directorially, Dedication is a bit of a mess, unable to settle on a tone or visual style. But it leaves you wishing the oddball couple well.

50
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
Frame by frame, Crudup is fascinating.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter Addiego
In the end, all the bitterness seems like window-dressing to disguise a trite story.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is a first-time directorial effort by Justin Theroux, a splendid actor, son of the writer Phyllis, nephew of the novelist Paul. He might have done better to have taken on something by them.

50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Individual scenes in actor Justin Theroux's directorial debut possess a certain flair, but the central issue on which the story turns -- how obnoxious and mean-spirited can you be and still get someone to love you? -- presents a forbidding obstacle.

50
The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A movie that reveals its toxic intentions only gradually. Until it does, there is much to enjoy in the prickly odd-couple relationship of Henry (Billy Crudup) and Rudy (Tom Wilkinson), successful writing partners and longtime friends.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A strong cast that flounders in profoundly unappealing material.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It's a romantic comedy, though neither funny nor romantic. It's a ghost story, though not scary. It's a satire about publishing, but without teeth.

38
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Unlike most of what Moore has been in, Dedication is unlikely to delight retirement homes on movie night. But it's not imaginative, lively, or true enough to speak to its intended audience of American Apparel shoppers, either. It's a slog.

30
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
Theroux and company could be said to be "Garden State"-ing, or trying to. Instead of that film's sheen of the touchingly weird, Dedication finds a whole lot of the coldly dumb.

30
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
"Inland Empire's" Justin Theroux pops his directorial cherry with this obnoxious Sundance throwaway, a by-the-numbers romantic comedy that mistakenly believes it's either too quirky or too irreverent to be a by-the-numbers romantic comedy.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
Tiresome, pretentious.


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