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Frankie & Johnny are Married

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Frankie & Johnny are Married (2004)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:14

Rotten:6

Average Rating:6/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language including sexual references, and brief drug use

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:May 28, 2004 Limited

Synopsis: A romantic comedy about Michael Pressman, a successful film television director & producer and Lisa Chess, a talented struggling actress, who are married and decide to mount a production of Frankie... A romantic comedy about Michael Pressman, a successful film television director & producer and Lisa Chess, a talented struggling actress, who are married and decide to mount a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune in equity-waiver in Los Angeles with the hopes of bringing some life and joy back into their marriage. They bring in Alan Rosenberg to play Johnny and Lisa plays Frankie and Michael directs. What starts off as a simple idea to revitalize the marriage turns into an utter nightmare. Alan becomes insanely difficult and the marriage becomes even more strained as the rehearsal process becomes tense and explosive. It reaches a point where after a devastatingly disastrous preview, Michael shuts the play down and loses his whole investment, and possibly his marriage. His only choice is to take over the role of Johnny himself and fire Alan Rosenberg. Now the stakes are truly high as to whether or not this couple can pull it off. -- © Michael Pressman Productions [More]

Starring: Jillian Armenante, Kathy Baker, Lisa Chess, Michael Pressman

Starring: Jillian Armenante, Kathy Baker, Lisa Chess, Michael Pressman, Hector Elizondo, Nicole Gomez Fisher, Steven Glick

Director: Michael Pressman

Director: Michael Pressman
Studio: IFC Films

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08/07/04
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
07/03/04
Boston Phoenix

It might be the first vanity project within a vanity project.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
06/25/04
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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Most entertaining is Alan Rosenberg's wicked spoof of actorly neuroses.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
06/18/04
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
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We get, basically, a love note from one to the other. But what we don't get is an absorbing movie.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
06/17/04
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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A wonderfully entertaining, hilariously funny and sweetly touching story.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
06/16/04
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

A funny, tender, satisfying blend of fiction and cinema vérité.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
06/11/04
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
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A chronicle of embarrassment that gratifyingly, if narrowly, avoids embarrassing itself.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
06/11/04
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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The pleasant surprise is that it's often funny and unexpectedly engaging, in large part because Pressman knows better than to ask you to feel too sorry for the fictitious 'Pressman' and 'Chess.'

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
06/11/04
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

There's little that's particularly dramatic or funny for the outsider in this autobiographical vanity project.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/11/04
Megan Lehmann
Megan Lehmann
New York Post
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A good-natured, mildly appealing video feature.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
06/10/04
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
New York Times
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A glorified home movie, redeemed by Alan Rosenberg's hilarious performance as an egomaniacal actor.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
06/10/04
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film-Forward.com

Indulgent home movie.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
06/09/04
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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Successfully amalgamates Henry Jaglom's Hollywood- home-movie aesthetic, ego-skewering satire, and a measured understanding of the kinship between love and risk.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/08/04
Akiva Gottlieb
Akiva Gottlieb
Village Voice
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A sharply written, directed, and acted character piece brimming with good-natured laughter and real affection.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
05/28/04
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

A delightful little sleeper of a love story.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
05/28/04
Evan Henerson
Evan Henerson
Los Angeles Daily News

It's art imitating life imitating art -- or something like that. Whatever, it's not very good.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
05/28/04
E! Online

A bittersweet, wryly amusing 'dramatic fiction.'

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
05/27/04
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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A blend of fact and fiction that audiences might find puzzling and at times a little self-indulgent, but sometimes very funny and occasionally quite touching.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
05/27/04
Bridget Byrne
Bridget Byrne
Boxoffice Magazine

Proves that playing together can bring zest to any sagging long-term love relationship.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
05/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
 
 
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