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.
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08/03/09
Friends and Lovers (1999)
8
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:1
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
Director: George Haas
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Reviews for Friends and Lovers
1 - 14 (sorted by critic A-Z)
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.
01/01/00
This movie is not merely bad, but incompetent. I get tapes in the mail from 10th graders that are better made than this.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn inept farce with the mentality of a tittering 15-year-old boy peering under the bedcovers with a flashlight.
01/01/00
Top Critic[An] early contender for most inept comedy and worst film of the year.
01/01/00
A cold, stupid bore about people with no goodness, just geniality; no inner life, just impulses.
01/01/00
Top CriticA movie that operates on a level of such staggering ineptitude that its very existence is offensive.
01/01/00
Top CriticWriter-director George Haas' debut feature offers nothing as it strains to be funny and provocative.
03/26/09
Top CriticAt least Alison Eastwood and Suzanne Cryer are good at getting naked.
12/06/05
The gags and situations are but repetitions and variations on dull, ribaldly worn and reject elementary Farrelly Brothers scribing.
02/27/01
While Stephen Baldwin as headliner is hardly comforting, nuanced performances by Alison Eastwood, Suzanne Cryer, and George Newbern make this watchable at least.
01/01/00
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).
08/03/09
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08/22/05
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01/29/05
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