America's Sweethearts
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Director: | Joe Roth | Actors: | Julia Roberts (as Kathleen 'Kiki' Harrison), Billy Crystal (as Lee Phillips), Catherine Zeta-Jones (as Gwen Harrison), John Cusack (as Eddie Thomas), Hank Azaria (as Hector Gorgonzolas), Christopher Walken (as Hal Weidmann), Stanley Tucci (as Dave Kingman), Seth Green (as Danny Wax), Alan Arkin (as Wellness Guide), Scot Zeller (as Davis), Larry King (as Himself), Steve Pink (as Limo Driver), Rainn Wilson (as Dave O'Hanlon), Eric Balfour (as Security Guard), Marty Belafsky (as Security Guard) | Country: | USA | Category: | Comedy | Year: | 2001 |
| Description: | A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie's co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film's print hostage. | Comments: | Billy Crystal's (I saw that because he co-wrote and co-produced) America's Sweethearts has Crystal as a publicist with a problem on his hands- he has to get two Hollywood stars who just broke up back together for they're next movie's public advertising, or else he looses his job. These two stars are John Cusack as a down yet not totally out guy and Catherine Zeta-Jones as his narcasisstic yet hot ex-girlfriend. But then her sister comes back into the limelight after being 60lbs over-weight (Julia Roberts) and stuff starts to bubble. The first part of the film actually surprised me (I thought this movie would be really bad) with some clever satire about hollywood crazies with Crystal convincing throughout as the edgy publicist. However, inconcistencies (mainly that it isn't funny) in the script and the actors are the ones that bring this film down into the bowels of romantic-comedy procedure that has been done so many times it's saddening. A pale shadow of Crystal's smash City Slickers or 61, to be sure. One note though: even though I really can't reccomend this movie, some of the funniest scenes of the year come up from the romantic muck thanks to good old Christopher Walken as a wacked out movie director who has bought the unabomber's shack to edit movies in. Now if only those scenes were in a better whole comedy. C+ | Languages: | English | Subtitles: | Length: | 102 | Video format: | Audio format: | Resolution: | Files sizes: | 999 |