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Down To You
Miramax Films


7.7

based on 21 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content, language, drug and alcohol use

Starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Julia Stiles, Henry Winkler, Lucie Arnaz, Selma Blair, Shawn Hatosy, Ashton Kutcher, and Rosario Dawson

A young man (Prinze) wins and loses his first serious love (Stiles) and looks back three years after they broke up.

GENRE(S):	Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Kris Isacsson
DIRECTED BY:	Kris Isacsson
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: July 11, 2000 Video: July 11, 2000 Theatrical: January 21, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	91 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

A pleasant addition to the time-honored genre of terminally cute youth romance movies, roughly equivalent to staring at a saccharine greeting card for a while.

Chicago Tribune John Petrakis

Ostensibly a story about first love in college, and I never believed a frame of it.

New York Daily News Robert Dominguez

Just another cutesy, rather toothless comedy about the pitfalls of first love.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Latest Freddie Prinze Jr. vehicle stalls at on-ramp.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

No one expects a light teen romance to be "Madame Bovary," but this is Colorforms filmmaking.

Boston Globe Vanessa E. Jones

Prinze charming, but can't save movie.

Film.com John Hartl

A Boring Young Couple.

Film.com Robert Horton

Floating this material slightly above the assembly-line level is the energetic cast and the efforts of writer-director Kris Isacsson.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

The best the makers of Down to You can hope for is that girls in their early teens--clearly the film's target audience--will be so carried away by its charismatic stars that they'll overlook the film's various flaws.

TNT RoughCut Graham Verdon

Ah, young love. It can be quaint and heartwarming, but is largely inconsistent and painful -- kind of like this movie.

Philadelphia Inquirer Chriss Hewitt

The highlights of the movie are a great song, Sam Phillips' "I Need Love,'' which comes at the end, and Stiles' affecting crying scene.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

There's nothing wrong with Down to You that a smart script and savvy direction couldn't cure.

Variety Brendan Kelly

Something oddly appealing about this mushy romantic tale, but first-time feature writer-director Kris Isacsson doesn't have the skills to raise it far above its formulaic foundation.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Stinko movies often unwittingly critique themselves -- and the brain-dead romantic comedy Down to You (which Miramax understandably didn't screen in advance for critics) is no exception.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Prinze and Stiles regularly talk to the camera, but that doesn't make their characters self-aware.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Neither character seems especially insightful, and their intense focus on the self and the terrific delicacy of their feelings comes to feel narcissistic and annoying.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

The confusion it mistakes for true soul-searching is about as realistic a look at the politics of youthful attraction as one of those "Did somebody say McDonald's?" commercials is a look at mainstream American family values. Did somebody say McCheese?

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

For the audience, it's like watching the dreckiest of teen puppy courtships trying to pass itself off as ''Annie Hall.'' La-de-blah.

Newsweek Ted Gideonse

A disaster: dull, predictable, at times cringe-worthy.

LA Weekly John Patterson

One of those puppy-love movies that make you feel like you're slowly drowning.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 34 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Kriti K. gave it a9:
Pretty cute love story. Nothing wrong with watching a slightly dull movie at times. The love scenes are really sweet!

Bubba S. gave it a10:
Stellar. Soul-touching. It will move you to the depths of your very being.

Krissy R. gave it a0:
I saw a lot of teen movies in high school, and this was on the very top of the heap of craptasticness. The only thing from keeping me leaving such a boring/unoriginal/flat movie was the fact I paid $6 bucks. If I could PLEASE get those 2 hours of my life back, I'd feel like I lived just a little bit more. Whatever happened to great romantic comedys driven by excellent dialogue, a la "When Harry Met Sally?"

Sam gave it a2:
I felt like my balls were torn off by some tongs during this overated by viewers piece of crap. Awful, awful, awful.

liz T gave it a10:
I love this movie!!!

Alx B. gave it a 0:
If chicks didnt like freddie this would get 0 - cmon hes been in better films than this tripe.

Leo B. gave it a 0:
It was so dull that i couldnt remeber the end 20 mins after watching it.

Down To You Miramax Films

Down To You
Miramax Films