My Best Friend (2007)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:64
Rotten:21
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Although the plot may sound contrived, the performances of Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon manage to turn My Best Friend into an earnest and witty romp.
Theatrical Release:Jul 13, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $1,062,504
Synopsis: Francois is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation... [More]
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Julie Gayet, Dany Boon, Jacques Mathou
Director: Patrice Leconte
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Reviews for My Best Friend
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Patrice Leconte has taken a story about male friendship, in all its posturing and potential vulnerability, and turned it into a light, smart, crowd-pleasing comedy. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Leconte has crafted an at once thoughtful, engaging, lighthearted, and melancholic entertainment about loneliness and friendship Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
This is a movie that sneaks up on you and grabs your heart before you know it. I would want to watch it with my best friend. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
French though it may be, My Best Friend effectively addresses what is a universal human condition. Full Review |
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It isn't always believable, but it is entertaining and funny, with an edge to it. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A wonderful, rare film that portrays one of the most under-represented but universal human neuroses: the desire for friendship or platonic love. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Few films so directly address the question of friendship, the nature of friendship, and, most of all, the illusion that our acquaintances and our friends are the same thing. Full Review |
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Daniel Auteuil is reliable as usual. Full Review |
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3/5 |
You might well find it very silly, but it grew on me, and it's certainly based on an interesting premise. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
If sex, gangsters, and killing Nazis are three of the most enlivening topics in the movies, then let us count friendship as one of the most tiresome, right up there with grooming horses and sharing for sheer thrills. Full Review |
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Auteuil and Boon's appealing performances keep the film engaging throughout, but it's easy to pine for a dark, challenging film with this premise, pitched more toward a harrowing emotional reckoning than this film's ambiguous but inevitable happy ending. Full Review |
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It’s better when it’s threatening, but Leconte knows his audience. Full Review |
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One looks to Leconte for some of the finest, most sophisticated and compassionate filmmaking coming out of France, not for a situation comedy. Full Review |
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My Best Friend's heart is in the right place, but its grasp on its characters isn't, well, the best. Full Review |
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