Metacritic Film

Kettle of Fish

Starring Matthew Modine, Gina Gershon, Kevin J. O'Connor, Gloria Reuben, Fisher Stevens, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Christy Cashman, and Isiah Whitlock Jr.

MPAA RATING: R for brief sexuality

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Comedy  |  Romance
97 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 6, 2006

A lifelong bachelor (Modine) confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to an attractive biologist (Gershon).

WRITTEN BY
Claudia Myers

DIRECTED BY
Claudia Myers

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

38 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 TV Guide
It's a sorry state of affairs when a goldfish and a frog (Ginger's prize specimen, unsubtly named Casanova) have more chemistry than a romantic comedy's human leads.
50 Variety
Pic contains its share of viable gags and stars generate a certain degree of convincing chemistry. But eventually, the seams in personality design and artificially stitched-together script construction begin to show.
50 Washington Post
Kettle of Fish, starring Matthew Modine as a commitment-skittish saxophone player, is a warm-spirited romantic comedy, but it tends to have a squawky pitch.
50 New York Post
You gotta give credit to any first-time direc tor who attempts an homage to classic screwball comedies on a shoestring budget, even if Kettle of Fish ends up not exactly being the catch of the week.
38 New York Daily News
Writer-director Claudia Myers' clunky debut feature makes the case that first-timers should probably focus on either writing or directing.
38 Boston Globe
The result is movie goulash: made with love, impossible to digest.
30 The New York Times
Premised entirely on nonsense.

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