Metacritic Film

Very Thought of You, The

Starring Monica Potter, Rufus Sewell, Tom Hollander, and Joseph Fiennes

MPAA RATING: R for language

Miramax Films
Comedy
88 minutes | Color
UK
Released In Theaters August 27, 1999

Three lifelong friends independently meet and fall in love with the same woman.

WRITTEN BY
Peter Morgan

DIRECTED BY
Nick Hamm

Overall Metascore

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

43 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 Los Angeles Times
Glowing, amusing movie that's a good bet to lift your spirits.
75 New York Post Rod Dreher
It's as light as a feather yet tickles all the same.
70 LA Weekly
This bright farce is spun from interlocking coincidences that only seem far-fetched.
60 TV Guide
The cast is aces, and Peter Morgan's screenplay is both very sharp on male sexual politics and crammed with enough comic twists and turns to keep you interested.
50 Film.com
A rather flimsy but moderately charming British romance comedy.
44 Mr. Showbiz
A pale, derivative little Brit ditty that will be forgotten almost as speedily as it was dumped...into theaters.
38 USA Today
Close your eyes during this miserable romantic comedy.
33 Entertainment Weekly
Features the dullest, least lifelike collection of pals this side of "Eyes Wide Shut."
30 Newsweek Ann-Rebecca Laschever
Despite some funny lines and situations, this comedy falls short.
20 The New York Times
The story is a clever sitcomy contraption, the dialogue is pedestrian.

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