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- 2000
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 26 m
- 2000
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 26 m
Summary The screen incarnation of America's longest-running theatrical production, The Fantasticks is a funny, mischievous and moving tale of lovers, carnivals, sword fights, magicians, comedians, romantic dreams, romantic delusions and the wisdom of letting true love follow its own course. (MGM)
Written By: Tom Jones
- 2000
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 26 m
- 2000
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 26 m
The Fantasticks
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Summary The screen incarnation of America's longest-running theatrical production, The Fantasticks is a funny, mischievous and moving tale of lovers, carnivals, sword fights, magicians, comedians, romantic dreams, romantic delusions and the wisdom of letting true love follow its own course. (MGM)
Written By: Tom Jones
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Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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53% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
48
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
53% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Manages to honor the theatricality of the source yet becomes a fully cinematic experience. A gem.
Has slow patches and requires a generous suspension of disbelief. But it's also sweet and optimistic -- a welcome antidote to gloom.
Fans starving for some song and dance celluloid may be satiated, but this movie version really shows the material's age.
A brave but ultimately futile attempt at adapting a piece that is so quintessentially theatrical that it defies translation to another medium.
It seems like another misstep - the story just doesn't hold up to Ritchie's treatment.
Shot five years ago by director Michael Ritchie. No release until now. Uh-oh. Disaster? Pretty much.
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