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America's Sweethearts (2001)

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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 98

Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts.

Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 30

Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts.

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Movie Info

Studio mogul Joe Roth returns to his roots as a director with this romantic comedy co-written by Billy Crystal and starring Roth's longtime friend Julia Roberts. Crystal stars as Lee, a studio publicist desperately trying to keep several facts secret from reporters during a high-profile motion picture's press junket. Among the developments that Lee is trying to obscure from view: the film's eccentric director (Christopher Walken) has essentially hijacked the $87 million movie and isn't allowing

PG-13, 1 hr. 43 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Directed By: Joe Roth

Written By: Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan, Donna Roth

In Theaters: Jul 20, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Nov 13, 2001

Box Office:$93.0M

Columbia Pictures

The kind of flick that gives fluff a good name.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

The premise falters along with much of the shtick.

January 6, 2002 Comment

Rita Kempley

Washington Post

Top Critic

Both harmlessly cynical and deeply fatuous.

August 6, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

America's Sweethearts is a balloon, all right -- a lead one.

August 2, 2001 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

A boring, brain-dead flop.

July 27, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

Too cynically slick and emotionally shallow.

July 27, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

So-so sitcom-like story of estranged movie stars.

December 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

...an egregiously bland piece of work that ultimately makes certain sitcoms look deep by comparison.

August 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Lacking originality or true wit, this mildly amusing but utterly banal comedy again demonstrates that Joe Roth is not much of a director and that Billy Crystal can do only one thing as an actor--be Billy Crystal.

February 16, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

Could have been more with such a great cast, but still manages to entertain.

September 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs

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Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

It gets a little funnier toward the end, making up for the draggy first half . . . However, the shelf-life of this Sweetheart should be short indeed.

March 20, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Brian Mckay

eFilmCritic.com

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Slight, but at least fitfully funny.

February 13, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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Tom Grealis

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

A loose-limbed, occasionally funny movie of many madly spinning teacups sunk by uninvested-in characters and niggling, wrongheaded details.

January 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Entertainment Today

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Brent Simon

Entertainment Today

Inevitably there are some funny moments, and of course this is an endlessly watchable cast. But the movie is just too over-the-top.

December 2, 2002 Comment

Ian Waldron-Mantgani

UK Critic

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A comedy about celebrity, family and other forms of insanity.Not bad but not so good either. America's Sweethearts is one of those movies where if you've seen the preview, you've seen the movie. The story was kinda dull and boring at times. Hank Azaria's accent was one the ugliest accent I've heard before, it was truly

July 5, 2009

Manu Gino

Super Reviewer

Was better than I expected it to be. Another must see film! I quite liked Catherine Zeta Jones in this as well.

June 23, 2011

Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

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