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Real Blonde, The

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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Tom DiCillo
Directed by: Tom DiCillo
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 27, 1998
DVD: January 26, 1999
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexuality and language
Starring Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell Caulfield, Elizabeth Berkley, Marlo Thomas, Bridgette Wilson, and Buck Henry
A hilarious look at ambitious young entertainment and fashion-industry denizens and the gulf between their dreams...and reality. (Paramount Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A meandering movie that usually meanders in entertaining directions.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A sharp, engaging look at what it's like to be hungry and not-so-young in New York.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
A smart, funny and endearing movie. It has enough cynicism to satisfy the part of DiCillo that would mock a blue-eyed superstar, yet enough genuine sentiment to make it possible for us to swallow the cynicism.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
A lively, well-constructed film with a large and appealing cast.
Read Full Review >Variety Lisa Nesselson
Enjoyable, if sometimes scattered, comic exploration of the quest for integrity and depth in a world wowed by artifice and superficiality.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
DiCillo has always had the laconic, funkified, vaguely surreal air of a Woody Allen on cough medicine (or a Jim Jarmusch on Jolt, for that matter), but The Real Blonde is just so much ado about nada.
Read Full Review >Empire Caroline Westbrook
The Real Blonde has lost that certain something that earmarked DiCillo's earlier, more offbeat outings, resulting in a film which is pleasant rather than innovative.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Modine, as a morosely self-involved actor, looks as if he's about to strangle someone -- and the movie, an attack on superficiality, never quite makes it out of the shallow end.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Jack Mathews
By interweaving a very contemporary love story into these themes, DiCillo has at least given it all a fresh spin.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Under the veneer of hip lies a bland romantic comedy wrapped in a layer of less-than-biting lifestyle satire, whose single most authentic moment involves an old woman and her scruffy mutt Buddy. Not cool.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Chris Gore
An adequate attempt, but sorry, it's just not groundbreaking.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Christopher Harris
Like the fakery it satirizes, DiCillo's Real Blonde ends up ringing hollow.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The movie raises more interesting issues - often connected with the hazy lines between appearance and reality - than it's prepared to coherently explore.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Joshua Klein
Unfortunately, this slight, dull film would have benefited from a bit more style, as well as substance, as its lame characters and obvious observations never rise too far above the soap operas DiCillo parodies.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Never manages to make its characters anything other than cartoons.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Denby
Stupidity is also an issue in the independent film The Real Blonde, in which everyone seems to have suffered an IQ slippage of some 40 points.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
If DiCillo had been going anywhere with this, I'd have gladly followed. But setting up petty ironies and pathetic references to Woody Allen seems to be his only goal.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Manohla Dargis
Cute and smarmy are nothing new for writer-director Tom DiCillo; what is new is the crushingly unfunny fusion of the two he's hit upon for this film.
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