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America's Sweethearts (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 139 Fresh: 43  Rotten:96 Average Rating: 4.6/10
 
Consensus: Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Theatrical Release: Jul 20, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $93,008,426

Synopsis: Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her... Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current affair, a Spanish bohunk short on charm (Hank Azaria). When their relationship troubles begin to threaten their superstar celebrity status and the release of their final film together the studio heads call in legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) to helm the troubled film's press junket. Julia Roberts costars as Kiki, Gwen's personal assistant and sister who has always lived to please her demanding diva sister. Once overweight and severely self-conscious, Kiki's life revolves around her sister's ridiculous demands in this send up of ego-driven movie star vanity, penned cleverly with cynical insider wit by Crystal and Peter Tolan. Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars and gaggles of press together at a remote desert location for the all important press junket where his best laid plans begin to unravel in this hysterical parody of the movie industry replete with neurotic actors, eccentric crazed directors (Christopher Walken in a gem of a cameo), maniacal studio heads, and gossip-starved press who will do anything or anyone for the next big story. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal, Hank Azaria

Director: Joe Roth
Screenwriter: Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan, Donna Roth
Producer: Susan Arnold, Billy Crystal

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Nov 23, 2001

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...an egregiously bland piece of work that ultimately makes certain sitcoms look deep by comparison.

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Lacking originality or true wit, this mildly amusing but utterly banal comedy again demonstrates that Joe Roth is not much of a director and that Billy Crystal can do only one thing as an actor--be Billy Crystal.

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Emanuel Levy
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Geoff Andrew
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Christopher Tookey
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12/15/03
Neil Norman
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3/4

Could have been more with such a great cast, but still manages to entertain.

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09/27/03
Scott Nash
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05/14/03
Joe Mader
Palo Alto Weekly
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It gets a little funnier toward the end, making up for the draggy first half . . . However, the shelf-life of this Sweetheart should be short indeed.

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03/20/03
Brian Mckay
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Slight, but at least fitfully funny.

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02/13/03
Tom Grealis
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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A loose-limbed, occasionally funny movie of many madly spinning teacups sunk by uninvested-in characters and niggling, wrongheaded details.

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01/16/03
Brent Simon
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Rebecca Murray
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2/4

Inevitably there are some funny moments, and of course this is an endlessly watchable cast. But the movie is just too over-the-top.

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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal.

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10/29/02
Manohla Dargis
L.A. Weekly
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