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Friends and Lovers (1999)

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Reviews Counted:13

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Rotten:12

Average Rating:2.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: An ensemble dramedy in which several twenty/thirty-somethings go on a ski trip, and fumble and bumble their way through sexual encounters and pseudo-intellectual conversations.

Starring: Robert Downey, Claudia Schiffer, Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci

Starring: Robert Downey, Claudia Schiffer, Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci, George Newbern, Alison Eastwood, Suzanne Cryer, David Rasche, Neill Barry, Leon

Director: George Haas

Director: George Haas
Screenwriter: George Haas
Producer: Josi W. Konski
Composer: Emilio Kauderer

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This charmless ensemble comedy starts out amiably enough, but quickly succumbs to the triple handicap of poor direction, a badly written script and some alarmingly excessive performances.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/03/09
Sandra Contreras
Sandra Contreras
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Downey at least seems to be having fun, but the rest of the cast runs the gamut from bland (Eastwood, León) to downright awful (Schiffer, Baldwin).

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08/03/09
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Writer-director George Haas' debut feature offers nothing as it strains to be funny and provocative.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
Lael Loewenstein
Lael Loewenstein
Variety
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At least Alison Eastwood and Suzanne Cryer are good at getting naked.

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12/06/05
Anthony Miele
Anthony Miele
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08/22/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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01/29/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The gags and situations are but repetitions and variations on dull, ribaldly worn and reject elementary Farrelly Brothers scribing.

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02/27/01
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

While Stephen Baldwin as headliner is hardly comforting, nuanced performances by Alison Eastwood, Suzanne Cryer, and George Newbern make this watchable at least.

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

[An] early contender for most inept comedy and worst film of the year.

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01/01/00
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

A movie that operates on a level of such staggering ineptitude that its very existence is offensive.

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01/01/00
Dennis Lim
Dennis Lim
Village Voice
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There is no structure or dramatic tension to the film, which is just a bunch of aimless scenes of people exchanging witless, pseudo-hip dialogue.

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01/01/00
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

A cold, stupid bore about people with no goodness, just geniality; no inner life, just impulses.

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01/01/00
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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This movie is not merely bad, but incompetent. I get tapes in the mail from 10th graders that are better made than this.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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An inept farce with the mentality of a tittering 15-year-old boy peering under the bedcovers with a flashlight.

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01/01/00
Stephen Holden
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