The Object of My Affection
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51 out of 100

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  • Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd
  • Summary: George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a devotion to ballroom dancing and they love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get particularly complicated.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    Much of that appeal comes from compelling performances by the two main actors.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    80
    It's just more wry than funny, more a gently subversive comedy of modern manners than the simpering date movie it seems to be masquerading as.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    60
    Easier to watch than it is to believe.
  4. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    30
    If the woman’s love is obsessive and needy, the story becomes stupid and painful, and that is what happens in The Object of My Affection, the Stephen McCauley novel that has been adapted for the movies with disastrous panache by playwright Wendy Wasserstein and director Nicholas Hytner.

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