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Sweet November (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 94

Fresh: 15

Rotten:79

Average Rating: 3.5/10

Consensus: Bad acting and direction plague this version of Sweet November. The story is unrealistic, as is the chemistry between Theron and Reeves.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content and language

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Feb 16, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $24,418,719

Synopsis: Based on the screenplay by Herman Raucher for the 1968 film of the same title, SWEET NOVEMBER stars Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves in the story of an experimental love affair. Theron is Sara, a... Based on the screenplay by Herman Raucher for the 1968 film of the same title, SWEET NOVEMBER stars Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves in the story of an experimental love affair. Theron is Sara, a free-spirited woman who runs across tight-laced ad executive Nelson (Reeves) at the DMV. Nelson wants only to be left alone to continue on the fast track of his career, but Sara is drawn to him. She makes him an offer: to be her November, the man who will live with her for one month only, during which she will "help" him. Not sure why, Nelson accepts, finding that Sara appeals to something he didn't even know was inside him. As she begins to change his life, Nelson realizes what he's been missing in his career-centered world--but just as he begins to reach out to her, Nelson finds that Sara has secrets of her own. [More]

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs, Liam Aiken

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs, Liam Aiken, Greg Germann

Director: Pat O'Connor

Director: Pat O'Connor
Producer: Deborah Aal, Erwin Stoff, Steven Reuther, Elliott Kastner, Wendy Wanderman
Screenwriter: Kurt Voelker
Composer: Christopher Young
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review

Pat O'Connor's emotional drama is disappointingly contrived, and while Charlize Theron is decentm Keanu Reeves seems to be lost

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12/02/06
Emanuel Levy
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Geoff Andrew
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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
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Christopher Tookey
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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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08/17/02
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A hard-to-swallow fantasy.

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07/12/02
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

Well, everybody knows November means just one thing to most folks: a big, fat turkey. And guess who's the stuffing?

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06/10/02
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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06/05/02
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Filmmaking of this caliber means always having to say you're sorry.

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Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

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In instances like these, you have a certain cliché about a kitchen sink in the back of your mind, but this is probably the first instance where they do throw it in.

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02/26/02
Mark Dujsik
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A must-see if only for its last scene, one of the most evocatively filmed finales ever to impart fate upon two lovers.

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02/21/02
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine
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12/10/01
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Is it still necrophilia if two corpses have sex with each other?

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