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Suburbans, The

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Donal Lardner Ward
Tony Guma

Directed by: Donal Lardner Ward

Release Date:
Theatrical: October 29, 1999
DVD: February 29, 2000

Running Time: 81 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for language and some sexuality

Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Amy Brenneman, Will Ferrell, Kurt Loder, Robert Loggia, Ben Stiller, Jerry Stiller, and Bridgette Wilson

A comedy-drama about the members of a has-been, one-hit wonder band (Ward, Guma, Bierko, Ferrell) who reform for a performance at one of their weddings, during which a talent scout (Hewitt) urges them to make a comeback. Ben and Jerry Stiller also star as a team of music-industry executives.

What The Critics Said

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67

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

A fresh and beautifully timed, if slight, romantic comedy.

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40

Film.com Ernest Hardy

Wants to be many things, but ends up being not much of anything.

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40

The New York Times Janet Maslin

It's cute and jokey and has no particular edge.

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40

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Slight, over-long.

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38

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Good-natured but mostly unfunny.

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30

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

The movie's repeated attempts to combine seriousness and humor as in a blender give it a dysfunctionally earnest tone.

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30

Variety Dennis Harvey

A mediocre ensemble comedy-drama that's not particularly funny, involving or even nostalgic.

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30

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

Goes into a tailspin after its impressive setup. Its dramatic tactics become so tangled and diffuse that, by the end, you get the feeling that everything gets tied up too hastily.

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25

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

A desperately unfunny comedy that wastes a brand-name cast.

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25

Chicago Tribune Gary Dretzka

The storyline isn't coherent, the music stinks, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogue is insipid and it is neither funny nor romantic.

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20

TNT RoughCut Kellam Eanes

A miserable failure.

20

LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Tiresome vanity project.

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16

Entertainment Weekly Doug Brod

By appearing in The Suburbans, a stunningly laugh-free comedy, (Jennifer Love Hewitt)'s already gotten her career-worst movie out of the way.

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10

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

So utterly awful, you're tempted to build a time machine, then go back in history and try to make sure Ward's parents never meet.

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What Our Users Said

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