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Bachelor, The
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7.3

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language

Starring Chris O'Donnell, Renee Zellweger, Artie Lange, Brooke Shields, and James Cromwell

A tale of love and its motivating factors, The Bachelor is a contemporary update of the 1925 Buster Keaton classic "Seven Chances." Jimmie Shannon (O'Donnell) is a confirmed bachelor who has 24 hours to find a bride and get married in order to collect a $100 million inheritance. (New Line Cinema)

GENRE(S):	Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Roi Cooper Megrue (play Seven Chances) Steve Cohen
DIRECTED BY:	Gary Sinyor
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: April 18, 2000 Video: April 18, 2000 Theatrical: November 5, 1999
RUNNING TIME:	101 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Cheerful and unpretentious.

Film.com Tom Keogh

The true star of this film, funny and often breathtakingly lovely, Zellweger carries virtually every scene in which she appears -- which aren't nearly as plentiful as one might like.

Portland Oregonian Chris Koseluk

You'll forget it tomorrow, but it's fun while it lasts.

Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams

The only thing more disappointing than a truly awful film is a merely weak one that has some really fun moments.

Newsweek Anjali Arora

Offers easy wisdom and light-hearted fun.

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

Feeble and formulaic.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

The conclusion is a sweet bit of frosting on an otherwise unremarkable confection.

TNT RoughCut Daysun Chang

A wildly silly goose chase.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

A pretty lame premise for a movie.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Its satire is too broad to carry much of a sting.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.

Chicago Tribune Marc Caro

Too bad the movie concentrates on the male point of view because it kicks to life when Zellweger is on screen.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

So unremittingly vulgar and inept it makes "The Best Man" and "Runaway Bride" look like masterpieces by comparison.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Out of place, out of time and out of its own cultural context.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Seriously undermined by its sour tone and an unusually charmless performance by star Chris O'Donnell.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Viewers have almost two hours to become thoroughly disgusted.

Variety Todd McCarthy

A remarkably mirthless and inept romantic comedy.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

It's up to O'Donnell to carry the show, and he's simply not up to the task.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

An innocuous waste-of-time.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Painfully unfunny.

Boston Globe Betsy Sherman

A vapid, charmless update of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances."

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The mood is ruined by the bitchy 1990s stereotyping of the husband hunters.

LA Weekly John Patterson

Catalog of ugly female stereotypes and rotten jokes.

Los Angeles Times Eric Harrison

A flat-footed film.

Austin Chronicle Steve Davis

This is one movie best left unattached.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Hellish matrimonial misfire.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

The Season Of Gilbert Mulroneycakes gave it a 4:
Ah, Mr Sinyor. We meet again...for the last time! The Bachelor is at least better than Gary's last venture, the nigh-unwatchable rom-com "Solitare For 2". This one works a little better, probably because he didn't write it himself, like he did with Solitare. He is a good director, I'll give him that. He has a good eye for composition and a neat sense of pace. Unfortunately, the material's a nothing. It's not unenjoyable, just sort of meh. A masterpiece compared to Solitare For 2, mind.

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