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When Brendan Met Trudy
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 25 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: Roddy Doyle
Directed by: Kieron J. Walsh
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 9, 2001
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: UK / Ireland
Summary
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)
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database Shooting Gallery Film Series
What The Critics Said
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...
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
It's hard to stop quoting from a movie this good.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
A plucky comic valentine for those who love the movies more than their own mothers.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This is only a movie. But a good one. May Roddy Doyle give us many more.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's a winning little movie about two people who get together, though they have no business getting together.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Its greatest asset...Flora Montgomery, a flash of blond, Irish fire who makes Trudy well worth Brendan's trouble.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A too-cute-by-half Irish romantic comedy that's overloaded with movie references that begin with the title.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
McDonald and Montgomery are fun to watch in this mildly amusing Irish romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Poses as the story of a wild, eccentric love match but is really about a match made in limbo.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
Lacks the perfect timing, luster and true vitality of its predecessors.
Read Full Review >Variety Emanuel Levy
Intermittently funny movie. Almost every scene recreates or alludes to a Hollywood or foreign classic.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's the type of film that begs to be called “charming” and by doing so instead ends up grating.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Donald Hurst gave it a9:
This is funny and romantic movie that leaves you smiling for one hour up to one day,depending on how wide your romantic streak is.L have seen it 4or 5 times now and enjoy it every time.
