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  • 2010
  • R
  • Lionsgate Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Lionsgate Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Set in the jazz age of the 1920s, the story follows a successful young American writer, David Bourne, and his beautiful wife, Catherine, on their extended honeymoon in Europe. Catherine soon becomes restless and starts to test her husband's devotion, pushing him to the limits of her erotic imagination and luring a sultry Italian girl Mar...

Directed By: John Irvin

Written By: James Scott Linville, Ernest Hemingway

  • 2010
  • R
  • Lionsgate Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Lionsgate Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m

Hemingway's Garden of Eden

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Set in the jazz age of the 1920s, the story follows a successful young American writer, David Bourne, and his beautiful wife, Catherine, on their extended honeymoon in Europe. Catherine soon becomes restless and starts to test her husband's devotion, pushing him to the limits of her erotic imagination and luring a sultry Italian girl Mar...

Directed By: John Irvin

Written By: James Scott Linville, Ernest Hemingway

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60
Dec 9, 2010
Handsomely presented, with locations in Spain and Africa, the film at moments accomplishes its ambitions of being a tart piece of steamed-up Jazz Age storytelling.
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50
Dec 7, 2010
Though based on the Hemingway novel published 25 years after his death, Hemingway's Garden of Eden feels more like the result of an ungodly alliance between Harlequin house writers and the cut-and-paste masterminds at A&E Biography.
By Michelle Orange FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 10, 2010
While Suvari is especially miscast as a sophisticate, only Richard E. Grant, as a worldly Brit, seems to understand the text.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 7, 2010
For an especially egregious bit of miscasting, look no further than Mena Suvari, star of this tony adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel about a disintegrating marriage.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
33
Dec 9, 2010
The film isn't erotic or profound. It is occasionally comic, though-like reading the finalists for one of those Bad Sex In Fiction awards.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
12
Dec 10, 2010
Everybody flirts with everyone else as director John Irvin pours on a level of shopping-mall-gift-shop-kitsch that would shame Wayne Newton.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
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Dec 9, 2010
For all the cinematic crimes against him, there has been no book-to-screen translation of his work quite as atrocious as Hemingway's Garden of Eden.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Devonshire Productions, Berwick Street Productions, Freeform Spain, Blue Sky Films
Release Date Dec 10, 2010
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
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Tagline Surrender your inhibitions...
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/hemingways-garden-of-eden.13705/
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