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Bachelor, The
New Line Cinema
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
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Roi Cooper Megrue (play Seven Chances)
Steve Cohen
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Gary Sinyor
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 18, 2000
Video: April 18, 2000
Theatrical: November 5, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
101 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Cheerful and unpretentious.
60
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.

58
Portland Oregonian
Chris Koseluk
You'll forget it tomorrow, but it's fun while it lasts.
50
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.

50
Newsweek
Anjali Arora
Offers easy wisdom and light-hearted fun.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Feeble and formulaic.
50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
The conclusion is a sweet bit of frosting on an otherwise unremarkable confection.
50
TNT RoughCut
Daysun Chang
A wildly silly goose chase.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A pretty lame premise for a movie.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Its satire is too broad to carry much of a sting.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.

38
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.
38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
So unremittingly vulgar and inept it makes "The Best Man" and "Runaway Bride" look like masterpieces by comparison.
38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Out of place, out of time and out of its own cultural context.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Seriously undermined by its sour tone and an unusually charmless performance by star Chris O'Donnell.

30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Viewers have almost two hours to become thoroughly disgusted.

30
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A remarkably mirthless and inept romantic comedy.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's up to O'Donnell to carry the show, and he's simply not up to the task.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
An innocuous waste-of-time.

25
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Painfully unfunny.
25
Boston Globe
Betsy Sherman
A vapid, charmless update of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances."
25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The mood is ruined by the bitchy 1990s stereotyping of the husband hunters.

20
LA Weekly
John Patterson
Catalog of ugly female stereotypes and rotten jokes.

20
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
A flat-footed film.

20
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
This is one movie best left unattached.

10
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Hellish matrimonial misfire.

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