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  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary For an awkward, self-conscious girl like Kiki (Roberts), being the personal assistant to a beautiful mega-star like Gwen (Zeta-Jones) isn't easy. But when she dutifully accepts the task of helping Gwen and her estranged mega-star husband Eddie (Cusack) make it through one last public appearance masterminded by legendary press agent Lee P...

Directed By: Joe Roth

Written By: Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan

  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

America's Sweethearts

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 32 Critic Reviews
44
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 24 User Ratings
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Summary For an awkward, self-conscious girl like Kiki (Roberts), being the personal assistant to a beautiful mega-star like Gwen (Zeta-Jones) isn't easy. But when she dutifully accepts the task of helping Gwen and her estranged mega-star husband Eddie (Cusack) make it through one last public appearance masterminded by legendary press agent Lee P...

Directed By: Joe Roth

Written By: Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 32 Critic Reviews
44
34% Positive
11 Reviews
38% Mixed
12 Reviews
28% Negative
9 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 32 Critic Reviews
44
34% Positive
11 Reviews
38% Mixed
12 Reviews
28% Negative
9 Reviews

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88
Turns the kleig lights around to produce a wry and dead-on commentary on the film industry and the journalists who cover it.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
67
Though an uneven, often confused, mixed bag -- the movie gradually comes together to be a fairly hilarious inside-Hollywood farce.
By William Arnold FULL REVIEW
63
For the farce it so desperately wants to be, the film often feels slack and too reliant on so-so punch lines for laughs.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
50
America's Sweethearts recycles "Singin' in the Rain" but lacks the sassy genius of that 1952 musical, which is still the best comedy ever made about Hollywood.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
40
Begins as a smartly promising, gently farcical comedy of manners and ends as sourly and haphazardly as the lives it is poking fun at.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
30
Chockablock with things we're not supposed to notice: that Roberts is wasted; that she and Cusack have no characters to play, so it's virtually impossible to understand why she loves him or vice versa; that the script provides comedy without bite and romance without resonance.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
20
The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 24 User Ratings
5.4
29% Positive
7 Ratings
63% Mixed
15 Ratings
8% Negative
2 Ratings

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Mixed or Average Based on 24 User Ratings
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29% Positive
7 Ratings
63% Mixed
15 Ratings
8% Negative
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Production Company Revolution Studios, Face Productions, Roth-Arnold Productions, Shoelace Productions
Release Date Jul 20, 2001
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline America's hottest couple has just broken up...it will take more than special effects to get them back together.
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Awards

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 2 Nominations
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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