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Object of My Affection, The
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Romance
Written by:
Wendy Wasserstein
Stephen McCauley (novel)
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 17, 1998
DVD: January 8, 2002
Running Time: 111 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong language and some sexuality
Starring Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Alda, Allison Janney, Timothy Daly, Nigel Hawthorne, and John Pankow
George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a devotion to ballroom dancing and they love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get particularly complicated.
What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Much of that appeal comes from compelling performances by the two main actors.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It's just more wry than funny, more a gently subversive comedy of modern manners than the simpering date movie it seems to be masquerading as.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
As Nina, Aniston not only displays a surprising capacity for both comedy and drama, but she shines with the kind of star quality that only a handful of current performers exhibit.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The mixture of sincerity and sitcom phoniness is bewildering at times, but on some level, I guess, the film works.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Sandra Contreras
You come away with a remarkable sense of the filmmakers and actors working together harmoniously as they delve into the heart of relationships between friends and lovers.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Tries to mix the messy realities of mismatched relationships with the structural neatness of a musical-comedy view of the world, with mild, occasionally diverting results.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
It boasts appealing performances, and it takes a reasonably tasteful approach to its subject, aside from a string of four-letter words that sound strangely out of place in this romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
In trying to appeal to a wide audience, quirky material has been forced to fit a formula that can't really contain it.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Jane Ganahl
Unfortunately, all the good parts didn't add up to a great movie.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
All of this promising material is dealt with on that level where characters are not quite allowed to be as perceptive and intelligent as real people might be in the same circumstances.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Judged esthetically -- the only yardstick worth applying -- it can be safely placed in that long line of indistinguishable Hollywood mediocrities, all of them trying in vain to resurrect an awfully weary genre.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
Wendy Wasserstein brings a dull pen to this literary adaptation, which shows none of the bite or savvy of Stephen McCauley's novel.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
So riddled with cultural stereotypes, woe-is-me neurotic mopiness, and glib therapeutic compassion that by the end all it leaves you with is a waxy buildup of falseness.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Joshua Klein
The film is being marketed as a romantic comedy, but it's neither romantic nor funny.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The film that Nicholas Hytner has directed (from a screenplay by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein) is slick, sweet, and disastrously unmoving -- even people who live to cry at the movies will find themselves depressingly dry-eyed.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Denby
If the woman’s love is obsessive and needy, the story becomes stupid and painful, and that is what happens in The Object of My Affection, the Stephen McCauley novel that has been adapted for the movies with disastrous panache by playwright Wendy Wasserstein and director Nicholas Hytner.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ginger G. gave it a 10:
Cute cute cute.
