Metacritic Film

Spent

Starring Jason London, Charlie Spradlingm, Phill Lewis, and Erin Beaux

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Regent Entertainment
Drama
91 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters July 21, 2000

A struggling actor, addicted to gambling and living beyond his means, manipulates his friends into a wild scheme to pitch a screenplay to Jack Nicholson.

WRITTEN BY
Gil Cates, Jr.

DIRECTED BY
Gil Cates, Jr.

Overall Metascore

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

34 / 100

Critic Reviews

70	Film.com Has a warm and intimate feel that helps push it a little deeper than its cable movie-of-the-week blueprint.
60	Variety David Sprague Covers familiar territory unevenly, but Gil Cates Jr. directs his freshman feature with a mostly assured hand.
60	Los Angeles Times Well-paced and solidly crafted.
40	TV Guide The main characters are defined by their problems, and the secondary characters (notably Brigette's parents) are so crudely drawn it's hard to imagine what Cates was thinking.
30	Village Voice Mark Holcomb So committed to its by-the-numbers banality you wonder why it isn't part of the fall TV lineup.
30	LA Weekly Lamely engineered and thoroughly exploited tragedy.
30	The New York Times By the end the most vivid figure on the screen is the lovable doggie who goes wherever dangling fingers are waiting to give the happy pooch a scratch.
25	New York Post The film is only 91 minutes long, but it seemed to stretch out for days.

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