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When Brendan Met Trudy
The Shooting Gallery
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Peter McDonald,
Flora Montgomery,
Gabriel Byrne,
Marie Mullen,
Pauline McLynn,
and
Don Wycherley
Peter McDonald and Flora Montgomery make an insanely appealing mismatched couple in this fast and fresh romantic comedy for movie maniacs. He wants to show her the glories of pre-Star Wars cinema. She wants to teach him her burglary skills. Kieron Walsh directs from a riotously funny script by Roddy Doyle. (Shooting Gallery)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Roddy Doyle
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Kieron J. Walsh
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: March 9, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / Ireland |

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...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's hard to stop quoting from a movie this good.

80
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
A plucky comic valentine for those who love the movies more than their own mothers.

80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
An Irish lark that blows in, trailing daffodils and the sniff of spring, from that adventurous releasing company Shooting Gallery Films.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This is only a movie. But a good one. May Roddy Doyle give us many more.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A charmer.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's a winning little movie about two people who get together, though they have no business getting together.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It has that unwound Roddy Doyle humor; the laughs don't hit you over the head, but tickle you behind the knee.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Far from the first movie in which a fearless woman coaxes the inner tiger crouched inside a mild-mannered milquetoast to spring into action, but it is one of the most charming.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
There's still enough of Doyle's hilariously foul dialogue and outrageous, culture-shocked Irish characters for the film to be a good bit of fun.

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Its greatest asset...Flora Montgomery, a flash of blond, Irish fire who makes Trudy well worth Brendan's trouble.

60
Film.com
Tom Keogh
About two lives in which transformation is a constant, destabilizing threat to freedom and sanity. That's a very provocative premise, though halfway through the movie Doyle and Walsh abandon its potential to go for easy laughs.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A too-cute-by-half Irish romantic comedy that's overloaded with movie references that begin with the title.

50
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
It's a movie almost doomed to be called "refreshing," in the way that the word is used to excuse the game but amateurish presentation of a quirky premise.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
McDonald and Montgomery are fun to watch in this mildly amusing Irish romantic comedy.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
If you're charmed from the outset, this is an enjoyable trifle; if you're not, it never gets any less mannered and convinced of its own wit.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Poses as the story of a wild, eccentric love match but is really about a match made in limbo.

50
Chicago Reader
Fred Camper
Director Kieron J. Walsh never quite figures out what to do with the numerous film references (he quotes dialogue, they reenact scenes), and the resulting uncertainty in tone, which sometimes treats the characters as parodistic products of mass culture, undercuts his later attempts to suggest that their love is authentic.

42
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Lacks the perfect timing, luster and true vitality of its predecessors.

40
Variety
Emanuel Levy
Intermittently funny movie. Almost every scene recreates or alludes to a Hollywood or foreign classic.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
McDonald makes for an appealingly befuddled bloke, and the sprightly Montgomery would turn any blighter's head. In a better movie, we'd care about what happened to them.

40
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Trudy is really the only character with the "Barrytown" zest, and Montgomery throws herself into the role with unselfconscious abandon. She makes the screen crackle with energy.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's the type of film that begs to be called “charming” and by doing so instead ends up grating.

20
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Doyle loves bad jokes and his story has no rhyme or reason, dissolving in its last third into a bungled heist and jailhouse face-off.


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