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Jet Lag

EMAILPRINTMiramax Films

Jet Lag reviews
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9.0 User Score:

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Based on 28 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Romance

Written by: Christopher Thompson
Danièle Thompson

Directed by: Danièle Thompson

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 13, 2003
DVD: January 20, 2004

Running Time: 91 minutes, Color

Origin: France / UK

Language(s): French (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: R for language and brief sexuality

Starring Jean Reno, Juliette Binoche, Sergi López, Scali Delpeyrat, and Lucy Harrison

A romantic comedy about an encounter at the Paris airport between a world-weary businessman (Reno) and a troubled beautician (Binoche).

What The Critics Said

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80

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Rather wonderful to sit through. It's fluff with flavor. And a cell phone.

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80

The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann

This French pastry, directed by Danièle Thompson, who wrote it with her son Christopher, is a meet-cute comedy in excelsis. Or very near excelsis.

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80

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Danièle Thompson's romantic comedy is excellent fluff français, leavened with charm, wit and smart observation about the way we love now.

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75

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's a pleasure to encounter a confectionary love story in which a man and woman of age and experience discover feelings that youth, more and more, has a patent on in Hollywood.

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70

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

It's got a subtext but not a subplot.

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67

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Jet Lag's romantic fluffery is somewhat beneath these old pros, but they make its meet-cute scenario work, mostly -– and most especially when crusty, grumpy, grizzled Jean Reno announces he's "totally in love."

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67

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

It's light and airy and, unlike the land-locked planes, runs the risk of nearly floating away into innocuous obscurity.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

For those who have a penchant for talky subtitled romantic comedies, this one has its charms, but is probably more worth seeking out once it's on video than during its (probably short) theatrical life.

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63

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Stars Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno give Jet Lag everything they've got. Too bad the movie doesn't better reward their effort.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Slender but surprisingly smart and pleasing.

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60

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A peppy romantic trifle from France that rises above the mundane on the strength of its beautifully detailed lead performances.

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60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

A breezy romantic comedy in which opposites attract against all the reasonable odds, this slight but thoroughly charming film benefits immeasurably from the assured performances of leads Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno.

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60

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

Minor whimsy of a film.

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60

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Binoche is especially effective playing a character that seems to have as many layers as her makeup.

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50

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

The perverse fascination of Jet Lag is watching two superb actors struggle with material that doesn't suit them.

50

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

This is the kind of movie that they show on planes -- white noise that lulls you to sleep.

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50

Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer

Although far superior to recent American fare such as "Alex and Emma," the film takes actors with quirky charms and places them in a homogenized, studiolike picture. What a waste.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

A time-waster that might be diversionary on a dull cross-Atlantic flight -- but only in the absence of alternatives.

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50

Boston Globe Ty Burr

As a credible love story, though, the film never leaves the runway. If you're a fan of these actors, you may want to look up Jet Lag when it comes out on video, or catch it on an Air France flight while flirting with the passenger in the next seat.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

In Jet Lag, Jean Reno is pressed into leading-man duty, with depressingly mediocre results.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Jet Lag is sort of a grown-up version of "Before Sunrise"...The difference between the two films is sort of depressing.

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50

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

sSo pleasingly forgettable that I spent most of the movie mentally casting American actors for the inevitable remake.

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40

Variety Derek Elley

Stays resolutely grounded thanks to miscasting of Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno as the leads and a script that contrarily breaks every rule of the genre.

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40

Village Voice Leslie Camhi

The writerly restraint that confines them to the airport is admirable, though the fairy-tale ending in Acapulco seems like a throwaway.

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38

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

There are frothy romantic comedies and then there is Jet Lag, a movie so thin it borders on nonexistence.

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38

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Who knew that Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno could be unlikable? And yet, there they are, grating on each other's nerves (and ours) as strandees at Charles De Gaulle airport.

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38

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

The script is definitely mediocrity mixed with complication.

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

An alarmingly unfunny French comedy where the two main characters are constantly yakking on a cell phone at an airport.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Pat C. gave it a9:
A romantic comedy for those into travel. Sometimes one has to get on a plane to get grounded. Simple and elegant, a light but splendid little love story. I have to go all the way back to My Man Godfrey to recall a movie of the genre as lean and direct. However, the cell phone as the principal prop evidently never needs recharging, and is as improbable as a John Wayne six-gun that shoots into next week without reloading.

Wolfgang W. gave it a 9:
Watching this movie with my girlfriend on a cold Sunday evening was so enjoyable and definitely heartwarming! I've never seen Jean Reno acting so well!

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