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Burning Annie
Armak Productions

Burning Annie reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 38 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.0 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Gary Lundy, Sara Downing, Kim Murphy, Brian Klugman, Jay Paulson, Rini Bell, Todd Duffey, and Kathleen Rose Perkins

Burning Annie is a humorous slice of college life, filled with authentic characters and moments sure to strike a chord. It is an up-close look at the fallout of our media-saturated society, a love story for the post-existential generations, and a wise-beyond-its-hero's-years study of human interaction that delivers poignancy and laughs to spare. (Lightyear Entertainment)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Randy Mack
Zack Ordynans
 
DIRECTED BY: Van Flesher  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 20, 2007 
Theatrical: February 7, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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70
The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
A thoroughly professional comedy, well paced, attractively photographed and smartly acted.
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50
Village Voice Nathan Lee
There's too much going on in Burning Annie but one thing goes remarkably right: Ordynans's exceptionally canny script nails how thoroughly pop culture has colonized our sentiments.
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50
New York Post V.A. Musetto
Burning Annie has funny moments, but it suffers from an overflow of characters.
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40
Variety Ronnie Scheib
Pic relies on nerdy world-weary irony to carry the day, but doesn't convincingly draw its characters.
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38
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Pays backhanded homage to Woody Allen via the travails of college loser Max (Gary Lundy), who fears that years of wallowing in "Annie Hall" have permanently poisoned his love life.
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10
Film Threat Rory L. Aronsky
Even with a look at many of these people's relationship problems, there's nothing remotely interesting to listen to when they talk. In this case, it's the fault of the script, which doesn't provide much of anything interesting to keep it going for as long as it does.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Gigi L. gave it a2:
A few laughs but overall a very tedious, amateurish endeavor.

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